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say it: SWEET-lee
sweetly is an adverb meaning "in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')". It carries one recorded sense.
in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')
“Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly”
“how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank”
“talking sweet to each other”
colloquialism · poetry
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sweetly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.