What's the difference between happily and willingly?

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.

Willingly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
  • (2) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
  • (3) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
  • (4) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (5) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
  • (6) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
  • (7) He also said that at least under the Labour government Gordon Brown had been willing to meet the Argentinians.
  • (8) Only 4% are willing to face the other option – paying for content with no ads.
  • (9) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
  • (10) "We are uncertain of the structure, deliverability and conditionality of what is proposed by Moelis, but we are willing to engage with them to investigate further.
  • (11) The bill hands £80bn to new GP commissioning boards and will allow any willing provider to compete to provide services.
  • (12) One of the reasons consumers are willing to take these cases on through the small claims process is because they are not exposed to the other side's costs."
  • (13) The Fe-protein and the MoFe-protein of the Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase complex can be chemically cross-linked by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (Willing, A., Georgiadis, M.M., Rees, D. C., and Howard, J.
  • (14) During his visit to Europe he did not speak at length on the subject of the shooting, but seemed more willing than Giuliani to distance the Dallas tragedy from the Black Lives Matter movement.
  • (15) "Only a minority of doctors would be willing to participate in such acts," the authors clear-thinkingly object.
  • (16) But it is unlikely that we are any more willing to tolerate the negative fallout from regulation today than we were in the 1970s, and therefore we predict that the proportion of GNP going to health care will continue to grow throughout the remainder of this century.
  • (17) Before the vote was announced, Dimon told shareholders the bank was willing to "pay attention to what we've heard."
  • (18) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
  • (19) That is likely to happen under plans by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley , to let "any willing provider" – part of the health service, a private healthcare provider or a charity – be paid out of NHS funds to treat NHS patients.
  • (20) Christina Wille, director, Insecurity Insight , Bellevue, Switzerland Demand data from those you fund : Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.