Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: graciously
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'eɪʃəsli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: graciously, gracefully
    Meaning: in a gracious or graceful manner; "he did not have a chance to grow up graciously"
Usage examples
  • Graciously she accepted the invitation.
  • 'You may,' Fledgeby graciously conceded.
  • My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously!
  • 'Sir, his highness has graciously ordered a Danish soup and red Hamburg dumplings.'
  • "These names are too numerous for me to remember them all, and I will content myself with the first," said the queen, graciously.
  • 'Oh, indeed!' said Mrs. Rogers graciously; for she was the lodger, and her servant was in waiting, so she was more gracious than intimate, in right of her position.
  • Kit and his companions were graciously received by Gaunt; and, with him they trapped the streams in the vicinity of the New Park and the plains of Laramie to the South fork of the Platte.
  • I graciously promised that I would, but could not help observing that the unsimpathetic Baronet offered it more on account of my being the Widow of Edward than in being the refined and amiable Laura.
  • Then the leader of the Clowns again spoke, "If you will graciously consent to land in our country, where everything we have is at your service, we shall be delighted to amuse you to the best of our ability."
  • She even went so far as to affect avarice to recommend herself to these sordid natures; and had the ingenuity to make it appear that certain concessions to luxury had been made at the instance of others, to whom she had graciously yielded.