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agreeably

[ UK /ɐɡɹˈiːəbli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an enjoyable manner
    we spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon

How To Use agreeably In A Sentence

  • I found him kind and benignant in the domestic circle, revered and beloved by all around him, agreeably social, without ostentation.
  • He then asked for some thing to eat, and commenced telling me a variety of stories relative to what he termed jolly parties in his former days; so that the day passed very agreeably. The Little Savage
  • The taste is bitter and disagreeably pungent.
  • But Lauren Kennedy, though she sings agreeably, is too ordinary as Nellie: a woman who is prepared to overcome her Arkansas origins to marry a French planter needs a bit of sass.
  • There are some things in the mode of speaking among the Friends, particularly in their public meetings, which do not strike me agreeably, and to which I think it would take me some time to become accustomed; such as a kind of intoning somewhat similar to the manner in which the church service is performed in cathedrals. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
  • Until recently, books about book dealing and book collecting tended to the agreeably fusty, redolent of shag tobacco and carpet slippers.
  • Each species ia concisely described in Latin, agreeably to the Linnean method, and accom* panied by some observations in lilingHsh relative to colour, degree of raiity, &c. Transactions of the Linnean Society
  • Between the orangery, which is in this widening, and the piece of water, the banks of which are agreeably decorated, stands the Little Castle, of which I have spoken. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • The baking being once over, the sowans pot succeeds the gridiron, full of new sowans, which are to be given to the family, agreeably to custom, this day in their beds. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
  • Several of the words used in Earl Sterndale are found in other dialects of the British Isles, such as cack-handed 'clumsy', chuntering 'mumbling disagreeably', and nous, 'common sense'. On a disappearing dialect
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