adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an amusing manner.
1854. Kingsley, Alexandria, i. (1857), 18. Alas! the Muses … are hard to tempt into a gilded cage, however amusingly made.
1867. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. App. 789. The narrative is so amusingly coloured.
1881. Athenæum, 15 Jan., 104/2. In the boy’s dress which, at her guardian’s bidding, she adopts in order to see town, she is amusingly ill at ease.
