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pleasantly

Adverb

Meaning

In a pleasant manner.

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Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. W. Somerset Maugham

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. George Will

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Quentin Crisp

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining. Andrew Lang

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly. Orson Scott Card

Make the night night, and the day day, and you will live pleasantly. Portuguese Proverb

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