mellifluously

English

Etymology

mellifluous +‎ -ly

Adverb

mellifluously (comparative more mellifluously, superlative most mellifluously)

  1. 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.
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