Lightly
With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.
Swiftly; nimbly; with agility.
Without deep impression.
In a small degree; slightly; not severely.
With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily.
Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.
Commonly; usually.
Without dejection; cheerfully.
Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily.
Not chastely; wantonly.
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Lightly Quotations
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.
Robin Gibb
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Thucydides
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
Wynton Marsalis
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
Jupiter Hammon
Lightly Translations
lightly in Dutch is zwak, lichtjes, zwakjes, licht
lightly in German is leicht
lightly in Italian is poco pesante
lightly in Latin is leviter
lightly in Portuguese is levemente
lightly in Spanish is ligeramente, facil
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