Usually means: In a cheerful and carefree manner.
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  1. lightheartedly: Merriam-Webster
  2. lightheartedly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lightheartedly: Vocabulary.com
  4. lightheartedly: Wordnik
  5. lightheartedly: Wiktionary
  6. lightheartedly: Dictionary.com
  7. lightheartedly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.

Similar:
light-heartedly, cheerfully, joyously, joyfully, cheerily, blithely, laughingly, mirthfully, lightsomely, good-humouredly, more...

Types:
playfully, jokingly, frivolously, sportively, gaily, jocosely, more...

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Similar:
light-heartedly, cheerfully, joyously, joyfully, cheerily, blithely, laughingly, mirthfully, lightsomely, good-humouredly, more...

Types:
playfully, jokingly, frivolously, sportively, gaily, jocosely, more...



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