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Helpfully

Helpful \Help"ful\, a. Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him!
--Shak. -- Help"ful*ly, adv. -- Help"ful*ness, n.
--Milton.

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helpfully

adv. In a helpful manner.

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helpfully

adv. in a helpful manner; "the subtitles are helpfully conveyed" [ant: unhelpfully]

Usage examples of "helpfully".

The meteorite was of a rare type known as a carbonaceous chondrite, and the townspeople helpfully collected and brought in some two hundred pounds of it.

Chantry helpfully steering the Surveyors to the Alley and thro' a back Entry into the Coffee-House, where they find Tumult easily out-roaring what prevails outside.

You'll notice,” I volunteered helpfully, tapping a $30 item with my platinum pen, “the fee for couriering their papers to my office.

Even the little towns like Franklin and Hiawassee and even Gatlinburg are just way stations scattered helpfully through the great cosmos of woods.

Then he'd given himself a superficial wound with his own gun and swum back into the ocean, awaiting rescue by the police and the INS, who helpfully transported him into the city themselvesfirst to the hospital and then to the immigration hearing officer.

Raz called helpfully as I leaped onto a trunk, lost my balance, and scrabbled to hang onto a rafter, my feet skittering because I'd misstepped in my haste.

He is now in a persistent vegetative state, which they helpfully translate for the reader as ‘.

Count Monstrodamus had helpfully provided a pronunciation guide after each word.

He used both hands, looking for the inner lacings, and she arched her back helpfully, which made her breasts swell up into sight just below his chin.