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\SWIM-ing-lee\

adverb 1. without difficulty; with great success; effortlessly: She passed the exam swimmingly.

Quotes

Thanks to this inspiration, he got on swimmingly for a time, but gradually the work lost its charm, and he forgot to compose, while he sat musing, pen in hand, or roamed about the gay city to get some new ideas and refresh his mind, which seemed to be in a somewhat unsettled state that winter. -- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, 1869

Origin

Swimmingly entered English in the early 1600s and is the adverbial form of swimmingmeaning "progressing smoothly."