mellifluously

English

Etymology

mellifluous +‎ -ly

Adverb

mellifluously (comparative more mellifluously, superlative most mellifluously)

1. In a mellifluous manner; sweetly.
   • 1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan‎^[1], 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^[2]:

     […] 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.