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[ adverb ] in a graceful manner

Examples

"she swooped gracefully"

Used in print

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

`` She did n't really say '' - She glanced away at the floor , then swooped gracefully and picked_up one of Scotty 's slippers .

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

At 7 : 25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps , carrying a saw-horse to be set_up as a barricade in_front_of the haberdashery_store window next to the entranceway , and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground , their golden , fringed epaulets and spic , red visored caps , I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd .

(Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)

A news item described the launching of a ship : `` Completing the ceremony , the beautiful movie_star smashed a bottle of champagne over her stern as she slid gracefully down the ways into the sea '' .

Related terms

gracelessly graceful graceful

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[ adverb ] in a gracious or graceful manner

Synonyms

graciously

Examples

"he did not have a chance to grow up graciously"

Related terms

ungraciously ungraciously gracious elegant elegant

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Rhymes with

tastefully gratefully unsuccessfully successfully peacefully playfully painfully gainfully forcefully faithfully hastily mercifully anencephaly usefully racially blissfully dreadfully wistfully regretfully purposefully crazily wishfully gravitationally educationally operationally carefully frightfully respectfully helpfully rightfully fatally nasally ruefully artfully wonderfully masterfully joyfully socially gleefully awfully occasionally radially woefully wrongfully delightfully lawfully truthfully sully crucially universally unofficially artificially personally beneficially officially sicily testily personally readily specially especially commercially professionally willfully tearfully fitfully wilfully manfully superficially necessarily tactfully hopefully cheerfully skillfully thoughtfully unlawfully nutritionally irrationally rationally meaningfully pitifully dutifully thankfully royally heavily dorsally potentially tangentially arbitrarily clumsily kennelly mentally wearily sequentially confidentially warily merrily preferentially exponentially philosophically intrinsically finally facsimile paradoxically subfamily municipally medicinally scientifically unnecessarily internationally family peripherally additionally unconstitutionally subtly unconditionally judicially nationally traditionally initially emotionally conditionally institutionally greedily geographically gravelly loyally preferentially potentially mentally federally supremely partially financially exponentially steadily impartially substantially circumstantially eventually severally confidentially regally provincially essentially internally involuntarily perennially accidentally environmentally ordinarily operationally obscenely fiscally experimentally incidentally extraordinarily momentarily militarily coincidentally centrally customarily secondarily fundamentally functionally externally developmentally generally educationally emotionally temporarily professionally temperamentally primarily voluntarily eternally actually viscerally sexually vitally brutally broccoli frugally tripoli exceptionally unintentionally proportionally easily unilaterally internationally intentionally irrationally historically perpetually unintentionally peripherally federally virtually governmentally optimistically

Phonetic and Homophones

G R EY1 S F AH0 L IY0

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