Happily and Miserably

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Happily adverb - In a cheerful or happy manner.

Usage example: happily accepted the invitation to dinner

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Miserably is an antonym for happily.

Nearby Words: happy, happiness

Miserably adverb - In a miserable manner.

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Happily is an antonym for miserably.

Nearby Word: miserable

He fails miserably, but winds up as a medievalist historian at Cambridge and works there happily for the rest of his life.

Source: Like a Duck Takes to Water
Of the characters who have their conclusions told in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the good ones are happily married with large families and the bad ones are either dead or miserably alone.

Source: Babies Ever After
In "Percy's Predicament", Percy is sent miserably to the works after an accident with the trucks, while Thomas returns from the works after crashing the stationmaster's house two episodes earlier, and works happily with Toby and Daisy on his branch line.

Source: Bittersweet Ending / Western Animation

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