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, chapter 6, in Mapp and Lucia‎:
      […] 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, published 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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