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agreeably

[ UK /ɐɡɹˈiːəbli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an enjoyable manner
    we spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon

How To Use agreeably In A Sentence

  • Translating hints into statements and guessing at reservations, I would say that the French fall very short of admiration of the way in which our higher officers set about their work, they are disagreeably impressed by a general want of sedulousness and close method in our leading. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war
  • Both stories are agreeably self-deprecating and rimed with snark.
  • The cooking time — at least two hours — requires meat high in collagen, with well-exercised muscle and an agreeably strong flavor. Principled Pork
  • They were agreeably surprised by the quality of the food.
  • The teacher is correcting the examination papers agreeably because all her students have done well in the examination.
  • On subsequent visits, none of this changes - the visitor in agreeably surprised to discover that the bougainvillia still hugs the walls, that the town is at least as clean as the time before, a pleasant sensation in a country where litter and garbage seem to have invaded anywhere and everywhere. Tequisquiapan, Queretaro, a delightful spa town
  • As I am resolved to _obey_ your orders, and directions of the Council, without any delay, as long as I live, I have, agreeably to those _orders_, delivered up _all my private papers_ to him [the Resident], that, when he shall have examined my receipts and expenses, _he may take whatever remains_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
  • So sit back quietly in that agreeably familiar comfy chair, treat yourself to a pot of weakish tea, and let me put the case for the rise of the dull man.
  • The time, however, passed agreeably in making excursions on the shore, where they found "good ground for corn and other garden herbs, with a great store of goodly oaks and walnut-trees, and chestnut-trees, ewe-trees and trees of sweetwood in great abundance, and great store of slate for houses, and other good stones"; or in receiving visits from the natives, who came on the ship in numbers. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
  • Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain? The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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