Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly');
- Example: "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"- Example: "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare- Example: "talking sweet to each other"[syn: sweetly, sweet]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sweetly \Sweet"ly\, adv. [AS. sw[=e]tlice.]
In a sweet manner.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sweetly
adv 1: in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes
a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan
Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet
the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare;
"talking sweet to each other" [syn: sweetly, sweet]