lightly
/ˈlaɪtli/ adverb B1- In a light manner. · As a teacher, I don't take rudeness in class lightly.
Comparative lightlier · Superlative lightliest
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And Andrea, after placing six pieces of five francs each in the man’s hand, leaped lightly on to the pathway.
She lifted her head and stepped lightly along, her eyes fixed on the sunset sky and an air of subdued exhilaration about her.
The Python dropped his head lightly for a minute on Mowgli’s shoulder.
On Anne’s birthday they were tripping lightly down it, keeping eyes and ears alert amid all their chatter, for Miss Stacy had told them that they must soon write a composition on “A Winter’s Walk in the Woods,” and it behooved them to be observant.
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