Definitions
in an affectionate or loving manner (‘sweet’ is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of ‘sweetly’)
Word origin
From Middle English swetly, swetely, sweteliche, from Old English swētlīċe (“sweetly; pleasantly”), equivalent to sweet + -ly. Cognate with Old High German swuozlīhho (“sweetly”), Icelandic sætlega (“sweetly; with gratitude”), German süßlich (“sweetish; sugary”), Dutch zoetelijk (“sentimental”).
Used in a sentence
“"No, Auntie," said Hardman, sweetly, seriously.”
“Sitting in the seat with the engine off before that day, the gears slid in so sweetly, and double de-clutching was so easy, I had done it a million times.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“In a kind way”7 letters
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