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English
Etymology
From cheery + -ly.
Adverb
cheerily (comparative more cheerily, superlative most cheerily)
- In a cheerful manner; with a cheery demeanour.
- Synonyms: cheerfully, (archaic) cheerly; see also Thesaurus:happily
Having already dismissed the story as a heap of piffle, he cheerily advised the reporters to go for a run.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 50:Matters stood thus in the Castle of Avenel, when a winded bugle sent its shrill and prolonged notes from the shore of the lake, and was replied to cheerily by the signal of the warder.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 129:What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; […]