playfully

Adverb

Meaning

in a playful manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

jauntily brightly humorously cheerfully gaily merrily blithely delightedly airily gladly mockingly jubilantly archly jovially naughtily
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Antonyms

soberly gravely staidly

Phrases with the word

tumble playfully

Examples

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved in a tornado. Mary McCarthy

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. Max Eastman

she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully Source: Internet

A drag queen playfully stick out his tongue during the "Banda de Ipanema" street party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Source: Internet

Akeem offers to formally abdicate if she doesn't want a life like this, but Lisa playfully declines and decides to become royalty instead. Source: Internet

And I ended up having all these conversations with all these Black folks in my life about the way hipsterism deals with the past ironically and playfully. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

playful as a kitten playful kissing playfull playfulness playgame playgan