handily
adverb
hand·i·ly
ˈhan-də-lē 
Examples of handily in a Sentence
He won the card game handily.
handily whipped up a fluffy meringue and spread it on the pie
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Hannah Sacks, People.com, 1 May 2025
The Miami Heat escaped the Atlanta Hawks in an overtime thriller, and the Memphis Grizzlies handily defeated the Dallas Mavericks to keep their seasons alive and advance to the NBA playoffs.
—The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
Noboa, running under the right-wing National Democratic Action party label, handily defeated Luisa González of the leftist Citizen Revolution Movement – the party of influential former President Rafael Correa.
—Kyle Schmidbauer, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
The result was deeply disappointing: Progressive circuit court Judge Susan Crawford of Dane County handily defeated conservative Waukesha County circuit court Judge Brad Schimel.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 Apr. 2025
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handily
adverb
hand·i·ly
ˈhan-də-lē
1
: in a skillful manner
2
: easily sense 1
won handily
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