Happily

[hap·py]

In a joyous manner

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By chance; peradventure; haply.

Adverb
in an unexpectedly lucky way; "happily he was not injured"

Adverb
in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily"


adv.
By chance; peradventure; haply.

adv.
By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.

adv.
In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife.

adv.
With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success.


Happily

Hap"pi*ly , adv. [From Happy.] 1. By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. 2. By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.
Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown.
3. In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife. 4. With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success.
Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Syn. -- Fortunately; luckily; successfully; prosperously; contentedly; dexterously; felicitously.

By chance; peradventure; haply.

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Usage Examples

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

I'm happily single.

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

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Other Usage Examples

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

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