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ably
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adv 1: with competence; in a competent capable manner; "they
worked competently" [syn: competently, aptly, ably,
capably] [ant: displaying incompetence,
incompetently]
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actually
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adv 1: in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually
independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large
meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" [syn:
actually, really]
2: used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the
opposite of that stated; surprisingly; "you may actually be
doing the right thing by walking out"; "she actually spoke
Latin"; "they thought they made the rules but in reality they
were only puppets"; "people who seem stand-offish are in
reality often simply nervous" [syn: actually, in reality]
3: at the present moment; "the transmission screen shows the
picture that is actually on the air"
4: as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; "actually, we
all help clear up after a meal"; "actually, I haven't seen
the film"; "I'm not all that surprised actually"; "she hasn't
proved to be too satisfactory, actually"
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aptly
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adv 1: with competence; in a competent capable manner; "they
worked competently" [syn: competently, aptly, ably,
capably] [ant: displaying incompetence,
incompetently]
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badly
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adv 1: to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen
they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely
impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"
[syn: badly, severely, gravely, seriously]
2: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or
improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill
prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the
car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team
played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived
plan" [syn: ill, badly, poorly] [ant: good, well]
3: evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is
to act badly"
4: in a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in
school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass
his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was
sent to his room" [syn: badly, mischievously,
naughtily]
5: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for
`badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly
shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn: badly,
bad]
6: very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard
for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in
need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
[syn: badly, bad]
7: without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly";
"I think he paints very badly" [ant: well]
8: in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the
venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the
case was settled disadvantageously for them" [syn: badly,
disadvantageously] [ant: advantageously, well]
9: unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of
the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
[syn: ill, badly] [ant: well]
10: with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional
display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's
death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of
the earthquake" [ant: well]
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gangly
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adj 1: tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling
teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into
a handsome young man" [syn: gangling, gangly,
lanky, rangy]
2: tall and thin [syn: gangling, gangly, lanky]
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googly
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n 1: a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually
breaks in the opposite way [syn: googly, wrong 'un,
bosie, bosie ball]
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jingly
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adj 1: having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many
small bells; "jingling sleigh bells" [syn: jingling,
jingly]
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scraggly
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adj 1: lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly
beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door"
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singly
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adv 1: one by one; one at a time; "they were arranged singly"
[ant: multiply]
2: apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in
fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly" [syn:
individually, separately, singly, severally, one by
one, on an individual basis]
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smugly
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adv 1: in a smug manner; "the bureaucrats explained smugly that
the facts provided by their own experts show no cause for
concern"
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snugly
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adv 1: fitting closely; "the vest fit snugly"
2: safely protected; "concealed snugly in his hideout"
3: warmly and comfortably sheltered; "sitting snugly by the
fireside while the storm raged"
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squiggly
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adj 1: wavy and twisting
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straggly
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adj 1: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling
handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"
[syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly]
2: growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"
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ugly
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adj 1: displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly
furniture" [ant: beautiful]
2: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;
"a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: surly,
ugly]
3: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery
appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: despicable,
ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched]
4: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a
frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even
horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"-
Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious,
frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly]
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vaguely
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adv 1: in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he
explained it somewhat mistily" [syn: vaguely,
mistily]
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wiggly
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adj 1: curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" [syn:
sinuate, sinuous, wiggly]
2: moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion;
"wiggly worms" [syn: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly,
writhing]
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wriggly
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adj 1: moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion;
"wiggly worms" [syn: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly,
writhing]
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spangly
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adj 1: covered with beads or jewels or sequins [syn: beady,
gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled,
spangly]
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zwingli
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n 1: Swiss theologian whose sermons began the Reformation in
Switzerland (1484-1531) [syn: Zwingli, Ulrich Zwingli,
Huldreich Zwingli]
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shingly
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adj 1: abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little
beach" [syn: gravelly, pebbly, shingly]
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blackly
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crackly
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giggly
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ugh
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jiggly
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waggly
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wrigley
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quigley
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wigley
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hooghly
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