cheerfully

comparative more cheerfully · superlative most cheerfully

1. In a cheerful manner.

   'Well, what have you done this time?' asked Sebastian cheerfully.

   1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 90

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   That principle carried out consistently and logically, makes the individual not a claimant upon society, but a benefiter of it. He contributes whatever talent, natural or acquired, he may have, cheerfully to the promotion of the common good, […]

   1849, William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 17, page 217

   Synonyms: cheerily, cheerly, blessedly, bubblingly, chearfully, cheerily, cheerly, eudaemonically