gamely

The horseplay this entails, though gamely performed, grows dizzying.

“We had a shot to win the game, I felt like,” said reliever Brent Honeywell, who gamely ate 4 ⅔ innings.

Needing 152 to win and backed by a large and raucous crowd in Sharjah, India batted aggressively and gamely kept up with the rate.

In the funerary events that ensued, Mrs. Kennedy gamely planned ceremonies and received well-wishers in the public eye, showing unabated grief only in private.

She also threw roses to her adoring crowd at the Royal Albert Hall, and coquettishly handed one to conductor Sakari Oramo, who gamely tried to lead the orchestra with it, until the stem broke.