1 in a pleasant way:
She smiled sweetly at him.
2 in a way that smells sweet:
a sweetly scented flower * The air smelled sweetly of fruit.
3 in a way that is without difficulties or problems:
Everything went sweetly and according to plan. * He headed the ball sweetly into the back of the net.
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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.
This entry for sweetly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sweetly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sweetly is tagged as adverb.
Does sweetly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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