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US
/ˈhæpəɫi/
]
[ UK /hˈæpɪli/ ]
[ UK /hˈæpɪli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a joyous manner
they shouted happily -
in an unexpectedly lucky way
happily he was not injured
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
- The results showed that the women in unhappy relationships and the women who remained emotionally hung up on their ex-husbands had decidedly weaker immune responses than the women who were in happier relationships (or were happily out of them). Is There a Health Advantage to Being Married? | Impact Lab
- 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.