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Meanings of gaily in inglês

In a cheerful or merry manner.

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        Examples for "cheerfully"
        Examples for "cheerfully"
        1
        I know several of his colleagues who would cheerfully accept the task.
        The Irish Times
        2
        You must come up and talk to me,' ordered Sir Julian cheerfully.
        This rough magic
        3
        In August, the private detective industry reported, cheerfully, an uptick in business.
        The Guardian
        4
        Meet me in front of my house in ten, she said cheerfully.
        God don't like ugly
        5
        But he was looking forward to levelling the score, he'd said cheerfully.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        1
        The drums in the finishing-shop hummed merrily their lively song of labor.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 / A Maga...
        2
        Some were smoking; some chatting merrily together; some sitting in dreamy languor.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
        3
        The young man laughed merrily, as if this were a strange question.
        Earth Abides
        4
        The peas danced merrily against the sides of an old-fashioned china bowl.
        A Beautiful Possibility
        5
        Forward in the engine room the gas motors were soon moving merrily.
        The Submarine Boys and the Spies / Dodging the Sharks of the Dee...
        1
        We all heard her laughing gayly among the ladies in the hall.
        Little Novels
        2
        The vessel was coming gayly up the river flying the new flag.
        A Little Girl in Old Detroit
        3
        She waved her cigarette and cried gayly in her hearty resonant voice:
        The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
        4
        Kneeling gayly down, we piled the wood in the deep, wide chimney.
        Aftermath / Part second of "A Kentucky Cardinal"
        5
        And they fell in gayly with her whimsy and called her T.O.
        Four Girls and a Compact
        Usage of gaily in inglês
        1
        The girls stood up in the grandstand and waved their banners gaily.
        The Rover Boys at Colby Hall; or, The Struggles of the Young Cad...
        2
        At his command the British ensign soon fluttered gaily in the breeze.
        The Boy Allies under Two Flags
        3
        Out in the street the sun shone gaily down on peaceful Battersea.
        The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
        4
        She jumped up gaily with the question still throbbing in her throat.
        A Daughter of To-Day
        5
        You let your ward go about gaily and stylishly; I am content.
        The School for Husbands
        6
        Not ignoring the shadow of the future, we gaily celebrated the past.
        Yet Again
        7
        The secrecy of the undertaking heightened its charm and they marched gaily.
        War and Peace
        8
        Along it for five miles we gaily canoed before stopping for luncheon.
        The Lure of the Labrador Wild
        9
        Swiftly and gaily did the slim bark cleave through the glassy sea.
        A Love Story
        10
        And Doe tossed his pencil gaily into the air and caught it.
        Tell England / A Study in a Generation
        11
        I'm in my Ruby Keeler phase, the young man told Ignatius gaily.
        A Confederacy of Dunces
        12
        He took his hands in his usual uncouth way, and asked gaily:
        Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
        13
        In small groups they chattered gaily, laughing and glancing here and there.
        L'Assommoir
        14
        They walked along dusty country roads passing donkeys pulling gaily painted carts.
        The Godfather
        15
        She looked towards the sky, and then at the gaily-lighted house opposite.
        The Precipice
        16
        Excusing myself, I took her in charge and we moved gaily off.
        The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making
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        Gaily through the time
        Gaily across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Rare