mellifluously
English
Etymology
mellifluous + -ly
Adverb
mellifluously (comparative more mellifluously, superlative most mellifluously)
- In a mellifluous manner; sweetly.
- 1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto V, Stanza 1,
- When amatory poets sing their loves
- In liquid lines mellifluously bland,
- And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves,
- They little think what mischief is in hand […]
- 1931, E. F. Benson, Mapp and Lucia, Chapter 6,
- […] Mr Wyse had made no secret about the pleasure it would give him to hear his sister and herself mellifluously converse in the Italian tongue […]
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4,
- Govind sang less mellifluously: he partly whined and partly grunted, from his habit of singing while lying on his belly.
- 1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto V, Stanza 1,