nicely
pronunciation
How to pronounce nicely in British English:
UK [ˈnaɪsli]
How to pronounce nicely in American English:
US ['naɪslɪ]
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- Adverb:
- in a nice way
Word Origin
- nicely (adv.)
- early 14c., "foolishly," from nice + -ly (2). From c. 1600 as "scrupulously;" 1714 as "in an agreeable fashion."
Example
- 1. Greek objections over macedonia 's name will do nicely .
- 2. One experiment in behavioural economics nicely illustrates the problem .
- 3. Can 't we talk nicely ?
- 4. Contact forms are generally small , so they will fit quite nicely in these windows .
- 5. In order to build a book , you need to have the xslt stylesheets so you can transform your xml into a pretty-looking book with a table of contents and nicely formatted text .