What's the difference between happily and successfully?

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.

Successfully


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
  • (2) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
  • (3) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
  • (4) Recently, it has been shown that radiation therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, can be successful.
  • (5) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
  • (6) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
  • (7) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
  • (8) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
  • (9) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
  • (10) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
  • (11) Different therapeutic success rates have been reported by various authors who used the same combination of therapy.
  • (12) The success in these two infertile patients who had already undergone lengthy psychotherapy is promising.
  • (13) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
  • (14) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
  • (15) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
  • (16) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
  • (17) Thus, successful thrombolysis decreases the frequency of ventricular ectopic activity and late potentials in the early postinfarction phase.
  • (18) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
  • (19) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (20) First treatment consisted of six-hour infusions on six successive days.