graciously

[ US /ˈɡɹeɪʃəsɫi/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈe‍ɪʃəsli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a gracious or graceful manner
    he did not have a chance to grow up graciously
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How To Use graciously In A Sentence

  • On November 29 -- without the fanfare graciously displayed at the MFA -- the Met received from Italy a kylix (drinking cup) from 560 to 550 B.C., which will be on loan to the museum until November 2010. Italy versus the Illicit Trade
  • Fortunately, after some disagreement I was allowed (most graciously!) to pay off the amount in installments over the next 12 months.
  • If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return. The Essays
  • Fortunately, after some disagreement I was allowed (most graciously!) to pay off the amount in installments over the next 12 months.
  • It is not enough for me to explore, to retreat graciously into the dust and floorboards of those exotic places.
  • Nor do they return the cheery wave of the locals who have graciously made way. Times, Sunday Times
  • Taking the argument to a highly respectable theologian, she won her point (‘'tis I that must be confuted,’ he conceded graciously).
  • May the Lord graciously grant us this holy faith and the love for Christ that rises from it - a love that is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, constraining us to lean on him alone.
  • This is nothing short of God hearing a child's prayer and graciously giving him his heart's desire.
  • Finally, the collagist has graciously hidden APOD's 10th anniversary Vermeer photomontage to help honor APOD on its 15th anniversary tomorrow.
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