adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fire burned merrily in the hearth.
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And now, merrily the crew heads for home with a fortune aboard.
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Her suppressing it won't touch the problem, and neither will your merrily pretending the anger isn't there.
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It all goes merrily or unhappily along whether you stick around to watch or not.
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Male speaker I was painting away merrily in Cirencester and realised I really needed a sound academic education.
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Police Headquarters was merrily ablaze, as were numerous other buildings in the vicinity.
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She could feel him trembling with fever and cold, although he was close to the fire which burned merrily now.
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They crossed merrily over the bridge into Marin, to which Anastasia and her friends had recently moved.