lightly
In a light manner.
Example
“As a teacher, I don't take rudeness in class lightly.”
Related words
- lightliness
- overlightly
- get off lightly
- once-over-lightly
- tread lightly
- take lightly
- tread-lightly
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "lēohtlīċe".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “lightly” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.