Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a mirthful or jovial manner: as, the visitors were mirthfully disposed.
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- adverb In a
mirthful manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a joyous manner
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Examples
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The man beside me notices and shakes a finger at Peter mirthfully, “What do they call it in America?” the man asks, smiling.
Zurich, 1989 Savannah Schroll Guz 2011
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Was Charles Addams (1912-88), the mirthfully macabre cartoonist who inspired the "Addams Family" TV show and movies — not to mention the musical that opens on Broadway next month — a "genius"?
The Charms of the Macabre Andrew Stark 2010
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Was Charles Addams (1912-88), the mirthfully macabre cartoonist who inspired the "Addams Family" TV show and movies — not to mention the musical that opens on Broadway next month — a "genius"?
The Charms of the Macabre Andrew Stark 2010
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Two readies mirthfully pushed Stevie back into her dressing room to complete her toilette.
ɘloЯ 2010
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Was Charles Addams (1912-88), the mirthfully macabre cartoonist who inspired the "Addams Family" TV show and movies — not to mention the musical that opens on Broadway next month — a "genius"?
The Charms of the Macabre Andrew Stark 2010
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Upon our literally schoolboy efforts to form a perfect circle we inevitably pulled one way or another not even lucky enough to form a geometrically pleasing oval but sadly, and a little mirthfully for me back then just as now, we had formed a share that could only reasonably be called a crisp with any modicum of accuracy.
With enemies like these... Jeff 2009
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Thus the glossy mirthfully printed humbling beach shots of George Bernard Shaw and Otto Kahn, and in 1918 it enshrined Henry James in its Hall of Fame, only to list him five years later among "The Ten Dullest Authors."
Vanity Fair: The Early Years, 1914-1936 Collins, Amy Fine 2009
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Just listen to his widely leaked Tom Cruise: Scientologist video that you weren’t supposed to see, and haven’t mirthfully shared with all of your friends.
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Whither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour -
November 12th, 2006 dame_habonde 2006
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Blackman chuckles mirthfully along with some of the other men.
The Game Has Changed Frank DiGiacomo 2008
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