merrilyadverb
uk/ˈmer.əl.i/us/ˈmer.əl.i/showing happiness or enjoyment:
Her eyes sparkled merrily.
informal without thinking about the result of what you are doing or about the problems it might cause:
The factory has been merrily pumping chemical waste into the river for the past ten years.
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Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punch idiom
- be as high as a kite idiom
- be dancing in the streets idiom
- be floating on air idiom
- be full of the joys of spring idiom
- be in seventh heaven idiom
- breezy
- brighten
- contented
- dance
- delighted
- ecstatic
- elated
- incandescent
- jolly
- jubilant
- jump for joy idiom
- light-hearted
- look/feel like a million dollars idiom
- loved up
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