Antonyms for amusinglyamus·ing·ly

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1. amusingly, divertinglyadverb

   in an entertaining and amusing manner

   "Hollywood has grown too sophisticated to turn out anything really amusingly bad these days"

   Synonyms:
   divertingly

How to use amusingly in a sentence?

1. Benito Mussolini:

   Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the "nobility" of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton. Gobineau was a Frenchman, Chamberlain, an Englishman; Woltmann, a Jew; Lapouge, another Frenchman.

2. Sydney Harris:

   Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

3. Anna Garlin Spencer:

   The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

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