[
UK
/lˈɑːfɪŋli/
]
[ US /ˈɫæfɪŋɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɫæfɪŋɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
with laughter; while laughing
he told the story laughingly
How To Use laughingly In A Sentence
- Mr. Derringham says you are called Cheiron," Mr.. Cricklander announced laughingly. Halcyone
- It is only one of the absurd rules in the system of law laughingly known as British justice.
- What I laughingly refer to as my garden is a corner lot by our postage-stamp size house.
- Looking at one of the awning's outer support beams, he laughingly recalls a time when some of his friends kicked him out of his bedding for snoring too loudly.
- To my own "frangine" who has just rung from the airport to say she is back home again after trekking for three weeks in the mountains of Bhutan and is on her way over to tell me of latest adventures, laughingly hinting that this was the hardest trek yet! La frangine - French Word-A-Day
- When they reached the sand, Muriel laughingly took off her sandals and her shorts.
- She laughingly adds that working with the star was not such a terrible facet of making this move.
- Seldom had the King evinced more gaiety of heart than at this particular period, or appeared to derive greater amusement from the gossipry of the Court and the gallantries of the courtiers; and he no sooner ascertained that Mademoiselle d'Entragues had become the mistress of Bassompierre than he said laughingly to the Duc de Guise: The Life of Marie de Medicis
- I believe that fame and celebrity, influence and power, success and failure, reality and illusion are all somehow neatly woven into a seamless fabric we laughingly call reality.
- I believe that fame and celebrity, influence and power, success and failure, reality and illusion are all somehow neatly woven into a seamless fabric we laughingly call reality.