adverb

• 1In an amused way; with laughter.

  ‘‘It just ended up being a huge success,’ Spicer says laughingly, ‘and we couldn't figure it out.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘She laughingly assured us that the curds were made just hours ago.’
  • ‘‘It is supposed to be a guest appearance, but I keep telling him that he has made me work real hard by giving me my longest lines ever,’ the actress says laughingly.’
  • ‘The shot-putter, who laughingly describes himself as ‘six-foot-four and 290 pounds’, says local women can be especially impressed by large men in tracksuits.’
  • ‘‘The result was we decided to get married,’ she said laughingly at a press conference in Delhi recently.’
  • ‘I apologised laughingly for staring, I felt as if I was constantly just staring, trying to take in every physical aspect of this man for whom I had left my previous life without ever meeting.’
  • ‘‘We're at the embarrassing bit,’ she explains, and her PR laughingly says she'd better buy the paper to read the interview.’
  • ‘All in good fun, we laughingly made our way through the 20-odd questions, secretly jotting down our responses on separate papers.’
  • ‘The pair now are good friends, and she speaks laughingly of her nonstop travel schedule and increased computer literacy.’
  • ‘They laughingly proffer a red slice of watermelon.’
  • ‘‘I tried it once and it came out like sweet milk with alcohol in it,’ the mother of two laughingly recalled.’
  • ‘Looking at one of the awning's outer support beams, he laughingly recalls a time when some of his friends kicked him out of his bedding for snoring too loudly.’
  • ‘And so we did, wildly, laughingly, in the rain and wind, thunder and lightning.’
  • ‘The African loudly and laughingly repeats the tots' request.’
  • ‘But, as Marie laughingly revealed to us, the medal is a fake.’
  • ‘He applied for what he laughingly says his wife described as ‘real jobs’ - though he cannot remember what they were.’
  • ‘When people ask him how long he bakes his bread, Dale laughingly replies, ‘Some days it takes 30 minutes, others an hour; it depends on how hot the oven is.’’
  • ‘When they reached the sand, Muriel laughingly took off her sandals and her shorts.’

  1. 1.1With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
     ‘we finally reached what we laughingly called civilization’
     More example sentences

     • ‘Bitter experience has taught me that resistance is futile, so it was with a heavy heart that I left my so-called home and got behind the wheel of what Brenda laughingly refers to as my ‘car’.’
     • ‘Around this time of year it's the ‘I'd better do something or I'll never get into one of those sparkly knotted hankies that designers laughingly call party dresses’.’
     • ‘On the side, while we were doing what we laughingly refer to as ‘research’ for this piece, we came across this story from November 2000.’
     • ‘She plays down, somewhat laughingly, the individual importance of an Oscar.’
     • ‘At other times - and especially during what we laughingly call the Scottish ‘summer’ - only a horizontal week of sand and sea will do.’
     • ‘The mood on the coach was good humoured - laughingly compared to a school trip, except better prepared with wicker picnic baskets and a bottle of port.’
     • ‘I don't know why I remember that; the movie itself was laughingly forgettable.’
     • ‘Airlines have shrunk schedules and staffs to the point of eliminating what were laughingly referred to as meals on many routes.’
     • ‘The camera's perched right above the monitor, looking out over what I laughingly call my ‘study.’’
     • ‘He also believes that pensioners are underpaid, so does that mean that we can look forward to a substantial increase in what this government laughingly calls a pension?’
     • ‘And the information is cutting edge, though I hope that when my kids are my age, it will be laughingly obsolete.’
     • ‘Several points which had been lurking somewhere in the hidden depths of what I like to refer to laughingly as my mind crystallized as I was watching the game.’
     • ‘It would have covered the terrace outside the ‘out-house’ and made a mess of the grassed area, laughingly referred to as ‘the lawn’.’
     • ‘Ok, I've sort of described what I'll be up to in what we laughingly call the near future.’
     • ‘She laughingly adds that working with the star was not such a terrible facet of making this move.’