Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sportive; lively; joyful.
- Gaily; joyfully.
- In a game or plucky manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a plucky manner; spiritedly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Sportive ;lively ;joyful . - adjective hunting, fishing, etc. Of or pertaining to
game . - adverb obsolete
Gaily ;joyfully . - adverb In a
game orplucky manner; in awilling andspirited fashion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a plucky manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet Scott says she "gamely" gives a "solid performance", and I also felt she was strong.
Stories from The Sun 2009
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She seemed surprised to have been passed the ball so quickly, but she gamely smiled and glanced around at the wide-eyed students.
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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Crossing that bridge to Mercado Sonora, Quetzal walks gamely forward, a pixieish figure, with his womanly legs, bushy black locks, his delicate air.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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In "Critical Film Studies" — on the surface a Pulp Fiction homage, but really a stealth tribute to My Dinner with Andre — Pudi gamely inhabited the anti-Abed, a dark and stern "normal" grown-up whose epiphany has left him all too happy to trash his real pop culture-loving self.
Emmys: TVGuide.com's Picks for Supporting Actor in a Comedy 2011
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Mr. Panetta and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Martin Dempsey, tried gamely yesterday to dress up these cuts not as a drawdown but as a "strategic shift."
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In an entry just posted on the Inside Higher Ed Web page, the president of Sarah Lawrence College gamely addressed what has become this liberal arts school's most notorious distinction: a price tag of $58,716 including tuition, fees and room and board for 2011-12, which makes it America's most expensive college.
When Big Government Goes to College William McGurn 2011
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Levi grabbed a microphone to lip-synch along to Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" — just one of the many tunes spun by an on-set DJ — while Favorite Villain costar and onetime James Bond Timothy Dalton gamely pelted him with maraschino cherries and even drank champagne out of a Giuseppe Zanotti stiletto.
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Smiling, gamely in lockstep, they sailed over to the press.
Carl Sferrazza Anthony: How Hollywood Helped Reagan Change Washington (PHOTOS) Carl Sferrazza Anthony 2011
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Sen. Menendez argued gamely that the Senate can do both the energy AND immigration reform this year, which would be climate change of a different sort.
State of the Union: Candy Crowley's Crib Sheet for April 25 2010
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Smiling, gamely in lockstep, they sailed over to the press.
Carl Sferrazza Anthony: How Hollywood Helped Reagan Change Washington (PHOTOS) Carl Sferrazza Anthony 2011
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