sweetly
adverbattested in dialogue
- //ˈswiːtli//
With a sweet taste or aroma.
adverb
- 1
With a sweet taste or aroma.
- 2
In a sweet or pleasant manner.
"No, Auntie," said Hardman, sweetly, seriously.
"Hey, Sis, do yah want a Hertz Donut?" one of them sweetly said as the other one held out a donut bag. She reached for it. Her step-sister snatched the bag away and socked her hard in the arm instead. "Hurts, Don't it?" they chime, laughing at her pain.
- 3
Nicely; finely; excellently.
Sitting in the seat with the engine off before that day, the gears slid in so sweetly, and double de-clutching was so easy, I had done it a million times.
Etymology
From Middle English swetly, swetely, sweteliche, from Old English swētlīċe (“sweetly; pleasantly”), equivalent to sweet + -ly. Cognate with Old High German swuozlīhho (“sweetly”), Icelandic sætlega (“sweetly; with gratitude”), German süßlich (“sweetish; sugary”), Dutch zoetelijk (“sentimental”).
Forms
- comparative
- sweetlier, more sweetly
- superlative
- sweetliest, most sweetly