Humorously
['hju:mərəsli]
Definition
(adv.) in a humorous manner; 'Dickens had humorously suggested a special service of intercession at St. Paul's Cathedral'.
Edited by Cathryn--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) Capriciously; whimsically.
(adv.) Facetiously; wittily.
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Examples
- Other times other manners, observed the Rector humorously. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- When attacked by Glaucon he is humorously protected by Socrates 'as one who has never been his enemy and is now his friend. Plato. The Republic.
- So he replied, humorously-- Well, Lydgate is a good-looking young fellow, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The circumstances attending the adding of a second dynamo are thus humorously described by Edison: My heart was in my mouth at first, but everything worked all right. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No, you don't; you mean fifty, says Mr. Bucket humorously. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Milverton's smile broadened and his eyes twinkled humorously. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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