adverb
- In an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'. )
- usage: "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other"
- synonyms: sweet
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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