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# laughingly

«laughingly» in Mova's school dictionary: **while laughing, or in a playful, teasing way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Laughingly means while laughing, or in a playful, teasing way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laughingly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories people speak laughingly, so the reader hears a laugh in the voice

### examples

- «Catch me!» she said laughingly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laughingly/#x1)
- The monkey replied laughingly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laughingly/#x2)
- He laughingly gave the coin away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laughingly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «laughingly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laughingly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.