What is "laughingly"

Usage examples of "laughingly".

One older child laughingly dives at them, ending in a swift aerobatic stunt.

Between ourselves, he says laughingly that all his success in life was due to Higgs and me.

Basilisk and the roiling cesspool of political chaos laughingly called the Silesian Confederacy.

But as Ada interposed and laughingly said she could only feel proud of such genuine admiration, Mr.

As the latter laughingly assented, I refrained from telling my madcap that she was too forward, and I could see by their mutual embraces that they were agreed in the matter.

Also stored in its gray discs were five chapters of the book I was writing in what I laughingly referred to as my spare time: a book about how to play the big league grants and foundations game.

But as Ada interposed and laughingly said she could only feel proud of such genuine admiration, Mr. Krook shrunk into his former self as suddenly as he had leaped out of it.

I had besieged her for three weeks without any success, and when I made any attempts she repulsed me laughingly.

I took the money laughingly, and the colonel then ordered the captain to fetch the offending soldier, and to give him a flogging before me.

None of which was much warm comfort, considering that Durexter had openly and sneeringly short-coined Bezrar and Surth, laughingly directing them to "call on the gods" or "beseech the Crown" for their losses.

Or, to put him aside, he being in loyal attendance on his Chief, was there not Private Hyppolite, billeted at the Perfumer's two hundred yards off, who, when not on duty, volunteered to keep shop while the fair Perfumeress stepped out to speak to a neighbour or so, and laughingly sold soap with his war-sword girded on him?

The carolling became distinctly louder when the drawing-room door was opened, which was explained by Jane laughingly saying as she entered, " Beatrice is back and Yvonne insists on joining in.

Indeed, he talked delightfully all through dinner, and with the coffee, half laughingly, half apologizingly told us the story of his life.

It was only then that he was reminded, by coldly practical lawyers, that she owned outright the controlling percentage of stock in Ashville Pharmacal Products, which had been founded almost indulgently as a toy for her to play with, that he had even laughingly signed a document that she brought him in the early days specifically declaring that he did not in any way regard it as community property, and that the most he could claim from the Corporation, aside from his rights as the personal holder of one paid-up share, would be the few hundred dollars he had advanced to get it started.

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