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sweetly

adverb

in an affectionate or loving manner (‘sweet’ is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of ‘sweetly’)

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Word Facts

Word length
7
Starts with
S
Ends with
Y
Contains
WE
Scrabble score
13
CEFR level
A1

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Pronunciation

ˈswiːtli

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adverb

  1. in an affectionate or loving manner (‘sweet’ is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of ‘sweetly’)

    “Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly”

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Example Sentences

Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly
{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': 'how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank'}
talking sweet to each other

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