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Definitions in simple English

lightly Adverb

— If something is placed lightly, it is placed gently. — If it is raining lightly, it is raining in small amounts or in low density. — If something can be taken lightly, it is not serious or solemn. It is not something that should be taken lightly.

lightly

— adverb without good reason one cannot say such things lightly — adverb (= light) with few burdens experienced travellers travel light — adverb with indifference or without dejection he took it lightly — adverb indulging with temperance we eat lightly in the morning — adverb with little weight or force she kissed him lightly on the forehead — adverb to a slight degree her speech is only lightly accented — adverb (= thinly) in a small quantity or extent spread the margarine thinly over the meat apply paint lightly

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lightly English » English

gently softly slightly light easily smoothly mildly thinly frivolously airily sparsely light-heartedly carelessly buoyantly brightly without difficulty weightlessly unevenly superficially simply scantily quickly nimbly negligently loiteringly flippantly easy delicately dawdlingly cheerfully casually bright anyhow with complete unconcern wildly weakly uncritically top thoughtlessly swiftly suddenly smidge slowly slightingly skilfully silently shade rub eye rub repeatedly

Topics lightly topics

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Grammar Very Degree

To a small degree

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deficient inappreciably inconsequentially insignificantly lacking lightly limited little low merely moderately negligibly piddling possible puny reasonably relatively slightly somewhat sparingly temperately trivial trivially

Examples lightly examples

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Simple sentences

If you knew how important a decision that was, you wouldn't make it so lightly.

I don't take life lightly.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

The other team took us lightly.

I got off lightly.

When it lightly rains like that, I wish to go for a walk in a park.

Don't speak lightly of a true heart, which is all your own.

He takes everything lightly.

Money is not to be treated lightly. It is like toilet paper: when you need it, you need it badly.

If you go out so lightly dressed, you'll catch a cold.

We have often lightly made fun of our friend's affection for stoats.

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

I dress lightly all the time.

You're lightly dressed.

Tom knocked lightly.

The team took the loss of the game lightly.

Tom kissed Mary lightly on the lips.

Movie subtitles

A chain hotel with vaguely French decor, and Italian food is being served tapas-style while a Filipino girl is marrying a Jewish guy, all with a lightly Arabian nights-style wedding.

A chain hotel with French decor and Italian food served tapas-style while a Filipino girl marries a Jewish guy in a lightly Arabian nights-style wedding.

How dare that cad mention her name so lightly?

I don't want anything you can give me, but i'll let you down as lightly as i can.

I cannot treat the matter so lightly.

And I give you warning that another offense won't be treated so lightly.

The union of two people for life. that is, marriage. shouldn't be taken lightly.

Which is an honorable estate instituted of God and therefore is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly but reverently, discreetly, soberly and in the fear of God.

I must say you're taking it lightly.

You can't dismiss these charges so lightly.

Tell me who could keep his reason before a princess so beautiful and so lightly clad?

Lightly, lightly, gay and sprightly.

The hyena. dkipped lightly. along the edge of it.

The Little Fellow knew otherwise, How dare that cad mention her name so lightly?

Don't take it too lightly, Sir Henry.

You seem to take it lightly.

Oh, just once-over lightly.

Well, I tried to treat it lightly but it seems that was a mistake.

Well, no matter what my reputation, I don't take killing lightly.

Whatever my reputation oh, my D'Artagnan, I don't take love lightly.

But my grandfather, you will find, is a man who does not take an oath. - nor anything else, lightly.

Now, don't talk too lightly about it, Tris.

YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T TAKE THIS TOO LIGHTLY IF I WERE YOU.

I'm afraid we'll have to ask you to leave, lightly and politely.

I even confessed to little Mimi, who took it very lightly.

Then you go over it lightly with the glue again,..

Step lightly now!

But don't dismiss this offer too lightly.

You can't take these decisions lightly.

I thought you treated it all so lightly, and I still do.

The surest precaution against sea sickness is two lightly boiled eggs and a half bottle of champagne.

Two lightly boiled eggs and half a bottle of champagne.

Guys, we can't let him off so lightly this time.

News and current affairs

Since even the smallest states have two senators, this leads to overrepresentation of lightly populated Western states that tend to vote Republican.

No court should convict someone lightly because of the views he espouses in the public sphere.

Export-led economies, of course, can't take currency appreciation lightly - it undermines competitiveness and risks eroding the country's share of the global market.

But it is a mistake to dismiss America's declining attractiveness so lightly.

Nevertheless, the doctrine that it is acceptable to take actions that will foreseeably kill innocent people can have the effect of leading us to treat more lightly than we should the deaths of those killed.

So offers of citizenship, such as to Germany's long isolated Turkish residents, however delayed, should not be lightly spurned.

Such a threat should not be taken lightly.

But ratings agencies and analysts who misjudged the repayment ability of debtors - including governments - have gotten off too lightly.

A little more than 60 years after the Shoah, one does not play lightly with such an evocation of destruction.

As in Ireland, the most vulnerable were being asked to take the hit, while large depositors were let off lightly and other lenders were to be spared.

The other school of thought does not take this scenario lightly.

Many societies treat crimes involving cruelty to animals far too lightly, but Vick's penalty - 23 months in prison - was substantial.

So the Chief Prosecutor's threat should not be taken lightly - all the more so given that the Constitutional Court has banned 18 political parties (including the AKP's predecessor party) since the current constitution was introduced in 1982.

One does not play lightly with matches next to a pile of dry wood.

Owing to the former, the risks to Asia from a European banking crisis cannot be taken lightly.

Fingers have been pointed at politicians, banks, and supranational institutions. But ratings agencies and analysts who misjudged the repayment ability of debtors - including governments - have gotten off too lightly.

Moving the base to the lightly populated Henoko District in the northern part of Okinawa - a solution agreed by both governments - is the only realistic choice.

And, as a rising power, China is not a force that leaders, even democratic ones, dismiss lightly.

On one side was the American model, with a variety of regulated banks, lightly regulated investment banks, and largely unregulated hedge funds managing the capital flows.

If Greece's new government does not tread lightly in these discussions, withdrawal of these institutions' liquidity support for Greek banks could follow.

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