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happily

[hap-uh-lee]

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adverb

in a happy manner; with pleasure.

by good fortune; luckily; providentially.

felicitously; aptly; appropriately: a happily turned phrase.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English; see happy, -ly

Related forms

o·ver·hap·pi·ly, adverb

Can be confused: hapless, haply, happily.

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Yet as social emulsifiers go, nothing can beat a happily babbling baby.

Students chat happily on manicured lawns, proudly donning their black graduation robes and snapping photos of each other with.

In the event, people happily continued both to multiply and to eat.

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Yet as social emulsifiers go, nothing can beat a happily babbling baby.

Students chat happily on manicured lawns, proudly donning their black graduation robes and snapping photos of each other with.

In the event, people happily continued both to multiply and to eat.

Bull sharks happily tolerate the murky water found in estuaries and bays.

He babbles happily and kicks his legs with delight as one piece of clothing after another.

Sadly-or perhaps happily for my arteries-their product line doesn't include cider donuts.

Contrasting elements coexist happily in this garden.

They also adopt a child and, presumably, live happily ever after.

Never were two statesmen more happily matched for the noble game that was intrusted to them.

Others let the behavior slide and happily cashed the tuition checks.

They will happily share information with others as long as certain social norms are met.

Customers happily munch on the dripping creations as juice spills their mouths, over their faces.

Some believed that it would all be absorbed benignly by the sea or be happily taken up by growing plants on land.

In some of the more popular places, the local crowds spill happily out into the street.

Dogs will happily share arbors, pergolas, and other shade structures with their owners.

They can survive quite happily in a tank with no access to land and spend a lot of time down the bottom of the tank.

How good research survives, and bad research gets happily buried in the dustbin of history.

Things would then happily fall apart, schools and departments would dissociate and be run independently.

For-profit colleges have happily depended on government support.

He neither loves nor hates the city but could not live as happily anywhere else, he told me over dinner, and intends to die there.

In the test chamber, he found the bacterium happily chowing down on polenta while cranking out red pigment.

The juveniles in the tank, if you stick a finger in there they will happily try to bite.

Wait until your plant is happily established with leaves maturing and new leaves growing out from the middle.

They have a rigid ideological conviction about what the future holds, and they'll happily force it on anyone within reach.

Seldom has a modern subject lent itself so happily to the sculptor's art.

They are now happily working with the second candidate on the list who truly wants the job at this school.

Half the mice were given running wheels, on which they happily ran five or six kilometres a day.

Happily for me the dive is brief, merely involving inspection of the bomb.

It's an attempt to stop book pirates, of course-but those people are off happily downloading their books from free piracy sites.

She happily discovered that it tastes good for breakfast, too.

But instead of slicing up his evil highness with a lightsaber, she happily snatches up a pile of money.

One writer after another is happily demonstrating that he and his outfit took an extraordinarily dim view.

Maybe they're perfect for each other and can live happily.

He was happily married, rich and left no suicide note.

The birds happily build large stick-and-sod nests on telephone poles, channel markers, and other such locations.

They go happily on their way away from the astronaut and never back to his eyes.

For more tips on co-existing happily with your pets, see our article on dog-friendly gardens.

The weighted base has a slot for the iPhone, and you can leave it there happily charging and syncing.

It is seldom the good fortune of parents to happily settle two of their loved ones simultaneously.

Network with people who are happily ensconced in careers outside the ivory tower.

After all, mark-to-market gains were happily accepted by banks before the bubble burst.

They borrow-banks happily accept his art as collateral.

He is doing it happily and telling me about an experiment he wants to do between.

The walls between the two professions are crumbling and we're happily giving you hammers.

They have been happily married for over fifteen years and have three children.

There was talk of a fresh trial, but the government happily dropped the case.

He swivels his hips and shuffles his feet, dancing happily.

Usually the security are not allowed to let you on top of the building but will happily take a panorama for you on there.

Your spouse or partner may be happily employed where you live and may not want to leave that job.

Many employers, though, would happily do a bit more paperwork in exchange for certainty.

One could spend a long day happily gazing into a tide pool here, studying its colors and the life it contains.

Yes, it'll oxidize the malaria, however it is entirely indiscriminate and will happily oxidize healthy human cells as well.

The person, however, has been hired and is now happily working on campus.

Frank and open-minded, genuinely interested in alternative views, the general happily took the press into his confidence.

It's the dog side that allows a dog to interact happily with animals of his own and other species.

Happily criminal investigators discovered that the geranium plant has telepathic sensivity.

The client is buying that person's expertise and will not happily settle for a subordinate.

Despite its lack of amenities and poor condition, children were still happily playing football with friends.

It happily allows visible light from the sun to make it to the surface.

Even if you had already been happily anticipating this day, it must feel pretty great.

Well, one morning he took a wrong turn, happily riding along until he came to the end of a road.

Are they so distrustful of the transport and retail industries that they would happily use many orders of magnitude.

But if you ski in bounds and suffer from cold hands, you'll happily pay-and forgive the weight.

We would be happily using low cost solar energy from orbit with no idea about global warming.

The dogs are tied to the sides of the sleds and run along happily.

Many eucalypts will happily sit in swampy conditions for a long time, then survive extended drought.

Quite happily ignoring the plight of their own people.

Rationalization of suffering is fairly relevant to our will to survive, and survive somewhat happily as a species in my opinion.

The tale of two toxicologists ends tragically for one, happily for the other.

Bit by bit, take your joy from the small things and learn to happily fart around again.

When their time comes, they happily go to the processing plant.

This, of course, explains why politicians are happily lining up behind this idea.

Happily my life is not filled with bad guys who are constantly attacking my family and friends.

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World English Dictionary

happy (ˈhæpɪ)

—*adj* , -pier, -piest
1.	feeling, showing, or expressing joy; pleased
2.	willing: I'd be happy to show you around
3.	causing joy or gladness
4.	fortunate; lucky: the happy position of not having to work
5.	aptly expressed; appropriate: a happy turn of phrase
6.	informal (postpositive) slightly intoxicated

—*interj*
7.	(in combination): happy birthday; happy Christmas

[C14: see hap¹, -y¹]

'happily

—*adv*

'happiness

—n

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happily definition

Of software, used to emphasise that a program is unaware of some important fact about its environment, either because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn't care. The sense of "happy" here is not that of elation, but rather that of blissful ignorance. "The program continues to run, happily unaware that its output is going to /dev/null."
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Idioms & Phrases

happily

see live happily ever after.

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