[ US /ˈhæpəɫi/ ]
[ UK /hˈæpɪli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a joyous manner
    they shouted happily
  2. in an unexpectedly lucky way
    happily he was not injured
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How To Use happily In A Sentence

  • Happily, some men want not to abase towards Mecca five times in every day...' A battery of winds sprang up. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • Origen did mightily oppugn a new heresie which did springe vpp in his tyme/it was called the heresie of Helchesaites/and at lẽghth he did happily extinguishe it. A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
  • When they met she was happily married to her first husband Laurie Brown, a member of Manchester United's back-room staff.
  • In the trees a pair of wood pigeons churred away happily.
  • We chatted happily in the lobby.
  • Katherine found herself smiling happily as if the compliment were directed at her own home.
  • My son seems much cheerier now, happily, although being me I worry that he is just putting a good face on things so as not to worry me. Fragments From A Week « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Today he's happily munching a cheese sandwich and talking about wild swimming. Times, Sunday Times
  • They play urban refugees - an unhappily married man and a coffee-shop girl burdened by her ill father - on the threshold of potential love.
  • For instance, many people who can't digest cow-milk-based products can happily assimilate stuff crafted from goat's milk (which is lower in lactose).
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