mellifluously
advEtymology From mellifluous + -ly.
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In a mellifluous manner; sweetly.
- When amatory poets sing their loves In liquid lines mellifluously bland, And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves, They little think what mischief is in hand […]1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto V, Stanza 1:
- […] Mr Wyse had made no secret about the pleasure it would give him to hear his sister and herself mellifluously converse in the Italian tongue […]1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 6, in Mapp and Lucia:
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- Govind sang less mellifluously: he partly whined and partly grunted, from his habit of singing while lying on his belly.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4: