What is "humorously"

Usage examples of "humorously".

He had one of them folding pocket-knives with about a hundred blades: some for apples, some for pears, some for boys, and little ones for babies, thought Barnacle humorously .

Hungry Joe had finished flying his first combat tour of duty when twenty-five missions were all that were necessary for him to pack his bags, write happy letters home and begin hounding Sergeant Towser humorously for the arrival of the orders rotating him back to the States.

A little brown rabbit skipped around a bunch of catclaw and sat twitching his whiskers and looking humorously at Givens.

Because, of course, the buoys had been cut loose from their original moorings by the enemy small craft, and humorously reanchored where there was no channel at all.

He relaxes in her respectable, motherly company, and converses humorously on the decline of civilization, a subject about which he would ordinarily be bitter.

Oh yes," Fulkerson humorously dramatized a return to himself from a pensive absence.

There were songs about polly planters: one sung by two women, humorously itemizing the necessary steps to make one polly plant produce everything needed by their family.

Tlaltelólco's delusions of superiority were for a long time humorously tolerated by our Revered Speakers.

On Bergoti Street in Argostoli she opened a souvenir emporium that sold reproduction amphorae, worry beads, dolls dressed in the fustanella of the evzones, cassettes of syrtaki music, snorkelling equipment, statuettes of Pan playing his pipes with every evidence of concentration yet endowed with a resplendent and hyperbolical erection, owls of Minerva shaped in limestone, postcards, handmade rugs that were really made by machines in North Africa, porcelain dolphins, gods, goddesses, and caryatids, terracotta tragedians' masks, silver trinkets, bedspreads embellished with meanders, keyrings that humorously mimicked in miniature the motions of copulation .