What's the difference between happily and sappily?
Happily
Definition:
(adv.) By chance; peradventure; haply.
(adv.) By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.
(adv.) In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife.
(adv.) With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success.
Example Sentences:
(1) It will be a slow process to ensure everything is in place, such as ensuring there is consistent fresh drinking water and a sewerage system, but they lived there very happily before.
(2) How can the CHOGM leaders condemn the dictatorship of Musharraf but happily wine and dine with Museveni?
(3) Our language and traditions are the result of complex processes of cultural cross-fertilisation and, as long as they are alive, I expect them to continue happily resisting rigid definition.
(4) Berriedale-Johnson happily admits that a couple of decades ago most of the free-from products on the market were "pretty inedible".
(5) In 2013, the Mail On Sunday reported that Umunna belonged to a “shady” City men’s club where bottles of brandy went for £4,000 a pop, that he hung out with celebrities, and that he would happily pay £1,200 for a suit.
(6) They happily take the weight off the system and invest in private services.
(7) It's broad enough to happily hold the startup raising money for a cool piece of tech, and the musician trying to fund a new EP.
(8) Off-screen, Duncan remains happily married to fellow actor Hilton McRae , whom she first met when they were working at the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the mid-1980s.
(9) Does it bother you that after all that time I will happily vote against it just in order to fuck you and your leader off?"
(10) My sister is 54 years old, and has lived very happily in her residential care home for the last 38 years.
(11) Sadly for those who need help now, it is going to take a long time, but happily for humankind, the future looks unusually hopeful.
(12) It was not our fault that we lost the game, I thought it was his.” Sunderland fans’ cheery endorsement of Allardyce’s appointment made the release of his autobiography happily timed, especially as, for now, the 60-year-old can still boast of never being relegated from the Premier League .
(13) I don't have children but I am very happily married, with a wonderful wife.
(14) The German leader said it had been an illusion to think that Germans and foreign workers could "live happily side by side".
(15) The knowledgeable staff will happily explain the merits of elusive Belgian beers with quirky names such as Jambe de Bois and Mad Helen.
(16) The Teardrop Explodes’ Julian Cope spent a lot of time happily expounding the benefits of LSD, while the very existence of Boy George clearly raised a number of interesting issues.
(17) "I t's all been a bit overwhelming actually," says the drama producer Pippa Harris happily, reflecting on response to The Hollow Crown, BBC2's Shakespeare tetralogy that came to a close on Saturday.
(18) Asked if passengers should have any concerns about safety, Haines added: "I would happily fly myself.
(19) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.
(20) But 10 months ago, the face on the screen suddenly changed to Matthews' own daughter, nine-year-old Shannon , who had gone happily off on a swimming trip from Westmoor primary school on February 19 but did not come home.