as in happily
in a cheerful or happy manner
cheerfully announced, "It's a beautiful morning!"
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Recent Examples of cheerfully
With this introduction of a hapless protagonist not entirely managing to live her best life, Brett Haley‘s film cheerfully speaks both the literary and cinematic language of romantic comedy — and won’t seek to subvert or elevate it in the two hours that follow.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Unable to roll the map out, its creators cheerfully realize that the country itself can serve as its own map.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
Fundholz followed him up, protesting vaguely, but Walter Schreiber was already very cheerfully attending to a working-class wife who was asking for potatoes, carrots, and bouillon cubes.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
What an opportune time for the chatbot salesmen to come knocking, cheerfully offering up a neater solution.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
Eng cheerfully sauntered into the exam room but abruptly stopped in her black heels.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Nov. 2025
Iasiello, a licensed real estate broker, exhaustively and cheerfully documents his work buying, rehabilitating and flipping these homes, providing daily video diaries of the work and line item breakdowns of the entire cost — and profit — associated with some of his projects.
—Karen Wang, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
On a good day, the Undervale houses maybe two living human guests and at least a couple dozen haunts of all demographics, time periods and modes of death — including the brother Katherine inherited it all from, the cheerfully feckless Nathan (Will Forte).
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Unable to roll the map out, its creators cheerfully realize that the country itself can serve as its own map.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
Fundholz followed him up, protesting vaguely, but Walter Schreiber was already very cheerfully attending to a working-class wife who was asking for potatoes, carrots, and bouillon cubes.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
What an opportune time for the chatbot salesmen to come knocking, cheerfully offering up a neater solution.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
Eng cheerfully sauntered into the exam room but abruptly stopped in her black heels.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Nov. 2025
Iasiello, a licensed real estate broker, exhaustively and cheerfully documents his work buying, rehabilitating and flipping these homes, providing daily video diaries of the work and line item breakdowns of the entire cost — and profit — associated with some of his projects.
—Karen Wang, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
On a good day, the Undervale houses maybe two living human guests and at least a couple dozen haunts of all demographics, time periods and modes of death — including the brother Katherine inherited it all from, the cheerfully feckless Nathan (Will Forte).
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheerfully
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My child attended daycare and summer programs at Pillsbury United Communities center just four blocks away, where a multiracial cohort of kids happily play through the winter, swishing around in bulky jackets and snow pants, bouncing towards their parents.—
Bao Phi,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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The pair chatted before Cooper asked DiCaprio to take a photo with him, and DiCaprio happily obliged.—
Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Few things are cozier than a brightly striped sweater.—
Odeya Pinkus,
InStyle,
12 Jan. 2026
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Pink and blue are the main colors featured in this year's brightly colored logo; however, since no teams have pink in their jerseys, the main colors to look for are blue, green, and yellow.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Cheerfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheerfully. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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