1 in an amused way:
He laughingly agreed.
2 used to show that you think a particular word is not at all a suitable way of describing something and therefore seems ridiculous:
I finally reached what we laughingly call civilization.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for laughingly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is laughingly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, laughingly is tagged as adverb.
Does laughingly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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