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laughingly

Adverb

Meaning

with laughter; while laughing

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Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly. Hesiod

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory. Robertson Davies

Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire. Cassandra Clare

Like the atom bomb, it arose out of equally academic research. Never, gentlemen, underestimate science. I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world. Arthur C. Clarke

Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair. Walt Whitman

Loans are to come home laughingly. Faroese Proverb

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