Good-humouredly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In an amiable, cheerful, or pleasant manner. UK

    "He had quite the sense that she knew things he didn't, and though this was a concession that, in general, he found not easy to make to women, he made it now as good-humouredly as if it lifted a burden."

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"He had quite the sense that she knew things he didn't, and though this was a concession that, in general, he found not easy to make to women, he made it now as good-humouredly as if it lifted a burden."

Etymology

From good-humoured + -ly.

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