Words similar to affectionately

Example sentences for: affectionately

How can you use “affectionately” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He smiles a little mockingly, but affectionately, at his own body.
Cohen writes affectionately and ad nauseam about his father and his father's aging, Brooklyn-born schemer-friends, who sit in delis blowing hard about the glories of tough Jews.
(All laugh affectionately and begin singing Stevie Wonder songs.
But as far as American journalism is concerned, that pronouncement is not quite correct, because more often than not American journalists began and for an embarrassingly long time continued not with Vladimir or Ilich (as the founding Bolshevik is sometime affectionately called, peasant-fashion by his patronymic) but with Nikolai Lenin.
Sometime later VP shortened the term by 250%, but by 1949 veep , although abhorred by many, was applied affectionately to Alben Barclay and became part of the written and spoken vocabulary.