Happily and Steadily

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Happily adverb - In a cheerful or happy manner.

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Steadily and happily are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Steadily" instead an adverb "Happily".

Nearby Words: happy, happiness

Steadily adverb - At a steady rate or pace.

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Happily and steadily are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Happily" instead an adverb "Steadily".

Nearby Words: steady, steadiness, stead

Artificial Brilliance: Although human NPCs still do stupid things on occasion (a police officer will happily trade away his only weapon for a single can of soup if he's hungry enough), they're still fairly intelligent, and the AI is steadily improving with each release.

Source: Video Game / Rogue Survivor
We are never actually shown that he's dumb, and it's possible he just can't think straight when angry, but since he's always angry... It's mentioned in Bartimaeus' footnotes that Jabor is the type to "steadily paint himself into a corner" or "happily saw off the branch he's sitting on".

Source: Literature / The Bartimaeus Trilogy

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