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swim⋅ming⋅ly

[swim-ing-lee]
–adverb
without difficulty; with great success; effortlessly: She passed the exam swimmingly.

Origin:
1615–25; swimming (in sense “progressing smoothly”) + -ly
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swim·ming·ly   (swĭm'ĭng-lē)   
adv.  With great ease and success: Things are going swimmingly.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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swimmingly

  1. mod.
    quite nicely. : I'm having a fine time here. Everything is going along just swimmingly.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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