Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an amusing manner.
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- adverb In an
amusing manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an entertaining and amusing manner
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Examples
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Ivanisevic speaks in amusingly mangled English, his head-spinning self-analysis and rich baritone enhancing the comedic effect.
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Free Press (or its lobbying arm, the Free Press Action Fund) convenes national media reform conferences; encourages laws and regulations that aim to increase the role of public media and reduce that of the commercial media; and coins amusingly infantile slogans like "Net neutrality: the First Amendment of the Internet."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Patrick Maines 2010
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Brigstocke's Wikipedia article features a photo of the idiot smiling smugly and sticking two fingers up, "amusingly".
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Speaking as an editor of many years standing, I have long ceased to be amazed at the number of scientists who start out their articles with that opening sentence sometimes slightly "amusingly" amended from Pride and Predjudice, clearly thinking they are being frightfully original.
Strong opinions Jenny Davidson 2006
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Speaking as an editor of many years standing, I have long ceased to be amazed at the number of scientists who start out their articles with that opening sentence sometimes slightly "amusingly" amended from Pride and Predjudice, clearly thinking they are being frightfully original.
Strong opinions Jenny Davidson 2006
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As the appropriator of his own he didn't so much want to brand him as -- just more "amusingly" even, if one would. -- to make out, perhaps, with intelligent help, how such a man, in such a relation, _could_ come to tread such a path: which was exactly the interesting light that Winch's curiosity and sympathy were there to assist him to.
The Finer Grain Henry James 1879
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Frank as the kind of amusingly blinkered presence you want around.
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Frank as the kind of amusingly blinkered presence you want around.
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Slumdog Millionaire; written by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy from Aron Ralston's book which is, kind of amusingly, called
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Frank as the kind of amusingly blinkered presence you want around.
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