Hypertext Webster Gateway: "playfully"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Playful \Play"ful\, a.
Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy;
humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer. --
{Play"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Play"ful*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
playfully
adv : in a playful manner; "she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds
on her left hand third finger and held it out to him
playfully"
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