cheerfully
/ˈtʃɪəfəli
/adverb
1In a cheerful way: he was whistling cheerfully...
- Undaunted, we whistled cheerfully all the time.
- I'd like to smile and skip down shopping lanes whistling cheerfully but it just isn't in me.
- Nicholas whistled cheerfully as he led the horses away.
1.1In a way that inspires feelings of happiness: a cheerfully decorated tram car...
- The room was cheerfully decorated, and each table was set with fine dinnerware in honor of the celebration.
- I noticed that the house was cheerfully decorated, but I wasn't paying too much attention to details at that moment.
- I groaned and twisted on my bed, pulling the covers to block out the sunlight streaming cheerfully into my room.
1.2Readily and willingly: he cheerfully admits to being the wrong side of fifty...
- ‘At the time it probably was a dopey thing to do,’ she admits cheerfully.
- She is uneducated, doesn't know how an MBA thinks, relies on her gut instinct and cheerfully admits that sometimes she gets it wrong.
- Whole scenes were done in an afternoon, he adds, while cheerfully admitting that he can sometimes spend up to a day choreographing just one minute of dance.