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Sweetly

//ˈswiːtli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    With a sweet taste or aroma.
  2. 2
    In a sweet or pleasant manner.

    ""No, Auntie," said Hardman, sweetly, seriously."

  3. 3
    Nicely; finely; excellently.

    "Sitting in the seat with the engine off before that day, the gears slid in so sweetly, and double de-clutching was so easy, I had done it a million times."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an affectionate or loving manner (‘sweet’ is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of ‘sweetly’) wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English swetly, swetely, sweteliche, from Old English swētlīċe (“sweetly; pleasantly”), equivalent to sweet + -ly. Cognate with Old High German swuozlīhho (“sweetly”), Icelandic sætlega (“sweetly; with gratitude”), German süßlich (“sweetish; sugary”), Dutch zoetelijk (“sentimental”).

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