Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an angelic manner; like an angel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Like an angel.

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  • adverb In an angelic manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb like an angel

Etymologies

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angelic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • Dolores had donned a tasteful red cap sleeved dress to match her cropped auburn hair, and Marcy, Marcy was dressed in white with a black sash smiling angelically at the camera.

    Sick Day Emily Smith-Miller 2011

  • As he looks down at the tickets, an instrumental of the Beatles, "Do you want to know a secret?" appropriately comes on, and then he looks up at her, mesmerized as she stands putting on lipstick, glowing angelically.

    Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Help! Samantha Zalaznick 2010

  • Rinsewater smiled, angelically, because when the occasion called for it he believed in adverbosity.

    God Bless You, Mr. Rinsewater Frank Rasky 2011

  • He was almost angelically handsome, with his high cheekbones, his aquiline nose, his streaked brown and golden hair.

    Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011

  • Flight NZ6, after watching someone in a Air New Zealand flight steward uniform float angelically around the Koru lounge introducing herself as somethingorother to do with the flight.

    > Leave Perth 2009

  • Dolores had donned a tasteful red cap sleeved dress to match her cropped auburn hair, and Marcy, Marcy was dressed in white with a black sash smiling angelically at the camera.

    Sick Day Emily Smith-Miller 2011

  • Everybody will do something rotten or dumb or rotten and dumb some time, probably five minutes after the last time someone else told them how smart and angelically good they are.

    Random Thought Number One on The Hoosier Hypocrite 2010

  • He was almost angelically handsome, with his high cheekbones, his aquiline nose, his streaked brown and golden hair.

    Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011

  • Let us focus instead on what matters: the young celebrities queuing up to wheeze angelically into some kind of metaphorical public Breathalyser barely after they've reached the legal drinking age.

    Young, gifted and dry | Viv Groskop 2011

  • [Catholic Boys Choir sings angelically in the background]

    Think Progress » Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God’s reaction to health care’s passage. 2010

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