"semisweetly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From semi- + sweet + -ly.",
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          "ref": "2007, Jim Ray Daniels, Mr. Pleasant, page 57:",
          "text": "\"Let's not and say we did,\" she said semisweetly— I didn't know her well enough to read her level of sarcasm.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Alison Kent, Wicked Games, page 122:",
          "text": "Kinsey smiled semisweetly.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Silence in Catullus, page 80:",
          "text": "In this connection, a student of mine once described Catullus as like a lucid drunk: drunk just enough to tell it like it is but semisweetly, maybe bitterly, indeed a bit salty.",
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        "In a somewhat sweet manner, but with an element of asperity."
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          "somewhat",
          "somewhat"
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          "sweet",
          "sweet"
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          "asperity",
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      "form": "more semisweetly",
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          "ref": "2007, Jim Ray Daniels, Mr. Pleasant, page 57:",
          "text": "\"Let's not and say we did,\" she said semisweetly— I didn't know her well enough to read her level of sarcasm.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Alison Kent, Wicked Games, page 122:",
          "text": "Kinsey smiled semisweetly.",
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          "ref": "2013, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Silence in Catullus, page 80:",
          "text": "In this connection, a student of mine once described Catullus as like a lucid drunk: drunk just enough to tell it like it is but semisweetly, maybe bitterly, indeed a bit salty.",
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        }
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        "In a somewhat sweet manner, but with an element of asperity."
      ],
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          "sweet",
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