In a pleasantmanner; so as to achieve a pleasant result. (adverb)
Examples of word pleasantly
One of the smaller plates from the set, a four-foot-long cutaway drawing in pleasantly soft sepia tones, hangs over my couch, and has followed me from Notre Dame to New York and finally to Milwaukee, a reminder that I must measure myself — success and failure alike — not against my peers, but against the great cathedral-builders of old, who had to think big as a matter of course.
Is John McCain pleasantly surprised that gasoline in America where someone need to remind him he is running for President is $4.00 plus a gallon.
I suppose it shouldn't be so astonishing given the broad theme that tends to unite anthology stories; nonetheless I remain pleasantly surprised.
I†™ ve found it. †The Systems voice chimed pleasantly from the walls of the house.
So he nodded, and kept his expression pleasantly interested.
Miss Roper, with all her skill, could not extract a word pleasantly soft from him one a week.
Kolinahr seemed like overkill; yet Kirk kept his expression pleasantly neutral.
"We may praise God as much for small mercies," said Martin pleasantly, "as for great ones; and trees must not be blighted that were appointed to fruit."