Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a cheering manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a manner to cheer or encourage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
cheering way;hearteningly ,encouragingly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But "-- cheeringly --" I said when I heard of it that
Sisters Ada Cambridge 1885
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Less cheeringly, a knowledgeable commenter sez casual contact usually reinforces prejudice, and only intense contact such as military desegregation really breaks it down.
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All of which suggests that his shift from grunty man-rock into kaleidoscopic experimentation is, rather cheeringly, ongoing.
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But every year, especially around this time, that assumption proves cheeringly false.
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They will take note that when the Israeli terrorist army was butchering Palestinian women and children, Israeli "civilians" stood and watched cheeringly, while sipping their beverages.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 As'ad 2009
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Where else on earth are policies so frequently set that are counter to the public good, cheeringly, by the very public that gets screwed?
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More cheeringly, I see that while I was away in Nigeria, Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun has been included in the Richard and Judy Book Club list for 2007.
On big brother, racism, twins in Nigerian literature and reading House of Stone uknaija 2007
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More cheeringly, I see that while I was away in Nigeria, Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun has been included in the Richard and Judy Book Club list for 2007.
Archive 2007-01-01 uknaija 2007
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Raye would have preconceived as his conduct in such a situation; yet he did send a short, encouraging line or two, signed with his pseudonym, in which he asked for another letter, and cheeringly promised that he would try to see her again on some near day, and would never forget how much they had been to each other during their short acquaintance.
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They hailed him cheeringly, their encient, the murrainer, and wallruse, the merman, ye seal that lubs you lassers, Thallasee or
Finnegans Wake 2006
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