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laughingly

 adverb
     
laugh‧ing‧ly
1 if something is laughingly called something, the name is a joke, or is not suitable:
The news network was laughingly referred to as the 'Disaster Channel.'
2 if you do something laughingly, you are laughing while you do it
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