What's the difference between cheerily and merrily?

Cheerily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a cheery manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
  • (2) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
  • (3) a note written in ominous red on its website cheerily reads.
  • (4) "I wrote four songs this morning," he boasts cheerily.
  • (5) "I've completely fucked my life," she admits cheerily.
  • (6) Duncan's began so cheerily "Hi Gang …" that I felt immediately calmed.
  • (7) We are all going to die, madame,” he told me cheerily one morning, while chopping vegetables.
  • (8) Models in full riot body armour and chemical survival suits waved cheerily for photographs, while one stall holder demonstrated a black breathing mask for use in a nuclear attack next to a tray of boiled sweets and a pot of free pens.
  • (9) Trying to understand the backwards film spurs the narrator to flares of inventive phrasing, but his voice has something else, too: a crackle of cliché.The narrator is cheerily ready with "no bowl of cherries .
  • (10) This route is designed for keen mountain-bikers, and I found it almost impossible to navigate the part-slush, part-powder path: I confess that at this point I got off and pushed, causing one passerby to call out cheerily, “It’s called fatbiking not fatwalking” as they sped past on crosscountry skis.
  • (11) Savile worked shifts and visited patients at the West Yorkshire infirmary from at least 1968 and was known for cheerily pushing the ill around on trolley beds into operating theatres.
  • (12) When they informed the PCT, it cheerily said that the GP had "been on their radar for ten years".
  • (13) Instead, they're scrubs-clad Casualty actors, lunch-breaking and lounging in the mid-June sun, overlooked by the cheerily vacant streets of long-running Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm.
  • (14) Next time a leaver cheerily tells you that Brexit has had no economic impact, you don’t have to just roll your eyes and remind them we’re still in the EU.
  • (15) So it's something of a surprise to find the newly installed chief executive of Global Radio , handed the job as part of a shuffling of the deck while its protracted takeover of GCap goes before the Competition Commission, cheerily making small talk with staff.
  • (16) She then paused until the audience's surprised roars subsided, before adding cheerily: "But tonight's nominees have proved me wrong."
  • (17) So when I heard someone cheerily singing along to bhangra in his allotment on the edge of Southam, I followed the tune.
  • (18) I think I could hum the bank's jaunty holding jingle backwards because I heard it so often and if one more customer services person had said cheerily: "No problem", when I'd just outlined precisely what the problem was, I'd have screamed.
  • (19) Today, though, she marches cheerily across Sam Eyde Street for all the world as if heading for the beach, sits on a bench, lights up a cigarette, and lifts her face to the light.
  • (20) But meeting Hoorn – a cheerily pragmatic artist with little time for the machinations of the UK music scene – inspired him to rip it up and start again.

Merrily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
  • (2) Newcastle are merrily vaulting up the league on the back of three successive wins (plus another in the Capital One Cup), earning more points in a fortnight than they had from the previous 15 games over nearly seven months.
  • (3) 9.15pm BST 72 min: As Dortmund fans sing merrily Real continue to attack limply.
  • (4) Segel threw himself into the movie with gusto, and merrily dances alongside his puppet pals in full-scale song-and-dance numbers.
  • (5) Ukip, however, has been happy to step into the empty space the mainstream has created, merrily stirring up resentment by linking low wages and immigration, as if this is the personal fault of immigrants, rather than an inevitable aspect of globalisation.
  • (6) But still, it’s not actually very nice, merrily passing round emails that are none of our business for no reason other than amusement.
  • (7) 4.57pm BST The Italian tune passes off without a hitch, a jaunty number with which the players sing along merrily, though Pirlo, as ever, seems to be putting to be putting in less effort than everyone else - but he probably has the voice of Pavarotti.
  • (8) At the end Swann, unusually batting two places above Broad, swung merrily alongside the stalwart Steve Mullaney so that Nottinghamshire could set a target, which would prove beyond the capacity of brave Glamorgan.
  • (9) A new production of his show Merrily We Roll Along is at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1 (020 7378 1713), until 23 February.
  • (10) It felt like we were really making the Merrily We Dance.” Still, even if he becomes the breakout star of Hail, Caesar!, Ehrenreich is probably best known for the YA witchcraft movie Beautiful Creatures – a very different kettle of fish, one would assume.
  • (11) Also nominated are John Tiffany (Once), Maria Friedman (Merrily We Roll Along) and the outgoing National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner (Othello).
  • (12) Around the time of signing that contract, Cresswell, perhaps not able to believe his good luck or gall, was reported to have been seen merrily burning money at the bar of Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms.
  • (13) He may offend vast swaths of the globe and merrily refer to people from Papua New Guinea as “ cannibals ”, but he does so with a boyish grin that makes it look as though he’s just being honest.
  • (14) Needless to say, Darcey is utterly unfazed, merrily pottering along with a nonchalant air.
  • (15) who like nothing better than settling down with a good book, or merrily browsing the internet, exploring content for hours on end.
  • (16) On Thursday he sounded hoarse and shrill as he poured scorn on opponents for the umpteenth time, causing much amusement among Twitter users merrily circumnavigating the ban .
  • (17) "I've got no inner life," he declares merrily, something that is plainly untrue.
  • (18) Merrily Watkins Late thirties, single mother with a difficult teenager, Merrily Watkins is a parish priest ... and exorcist (or, as rebranded by the modern Church of England, "Deliverance Consultant").
  • (19) His wife, the actor Carey Mulligan , took some persuading on it ... Mumford and Mulligan married in April, and she is here at the venue today, merrily flitting about the wings, wearing a jumper with a large letter M on it.
  • (20) Just two hours later, I find myself riding merrily alongside Juan Manuel, herding sheep.

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