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      • showing happiness or enjoyment: Her eyes sparkled merrily. informal without thinking about the result of what you are doing or about the problems it might cause:
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  2. What does the adverb merrily mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the adverb merrily , one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

  3. showing happiness or enjoyment: Her eyes sparkled merrily. informal. without thinking about the result of what you are doing or about the problems it might cause: The factory has been merrily pumping chemical waste into the river for the past ten years. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  4. If you say that something is happening merrily, you mean that it is happening fairly quickly, and in a pleasant or satisfactory way. [...]

  5. Dec 19, 2015 · This SE QA explains that both blazing and blazingly are valid English words (despite what my spell-checker claims). Can anyone explain why they are both valid, and the difference between the words. In context, what is the difference between blazing fast and blazingly fast?

  6. Check pronunciation: merrily. Definition of merrily adverb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  7. All you need to know about "MERRILY" in one place: definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.

  8. merrily. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English mer‧ri‧ly /ˈmerəli/ adverb 1 written in a happy way, or in a way that makes you feel happy Sylvia laughed merrily. 2 literary quickly and in a pleasant way The fire soon began to burn merrily.

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