1. In an approving manner.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• apprasingly,
• aprovingly,
• zpprovingly,
• spprovingly,
• wpprovingly,
• qpprovingly,
• aoprovingly,
• alprovingly,
• a-provingly,
• a0provingly,
• aporovingly,
• aplrovingly,
• ap-rovingly,
• ap0rovingly,
• appeovingly,
• approviingly,
• aprrovingly,
• appriasingly,
• improvinglly,
• improvinglyy

• approving,
• approval,
• approved,
• appropriately,
• approver.

The adjective form of the word "approvingly" is "approving".

The plural form of the word "approvingly" is "approvinglies".

The singular form of the word "approvingly" is "approvingly". It is already in its singular form, as "approvingly" is an adverb and doesn't change its form regardless of whether it is referring to a singular or plural subject.