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accurately
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adv 1: with few mistakes; "he works very accurately" [ant:
inaccurately]
2: strictly correctly; "repeated the order accurately"
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adequately
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adv 1: in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree; "he was
adequately prepared" [ant: inadequately]
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affectionately
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adv 1: with affection; "she loved him dearly"; "he treats her
affectionately" [syn: dearly, affectionately, dear]
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alternately
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adv 1: in an alternating sequence or position; "They were
deglycerolized by alternately centrifuging and mixing";
"he planted fir and pine trees alternately"
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appropriately
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adv 1: in an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed"
[syn: appropriately, suitably, fittingly,
befittingly, fitly] [ant: inappropriately,
unsuitably]
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approximately
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adv 1: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct;
"lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute";
"he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can
stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people
came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly
$3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so
people were at the party" [syn: approximately, about,
close to, just about, some, roughly, more or
less, around, or so]
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articulately
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adv 1: with eloquence; "he expressed his ideas eloquently" [syn:
eloquently, articulately] [ant: inarticulately,
ineloquently]
2: in an articulate manner; "he argued articulately for his
plan" [syn: articulately, eloquently] [ant:
inarticulately]
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brutally
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adv 1: in a vicious manner; "he was viciously attacked" [syn:
viciously, brutally, savagely]
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compassionately
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adv 1: in a compassionate manner; "the nurse looked at him
pityingly" [syn: pityingly, compassionately]
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considerately
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adv 1: in a considerate manner; "they considerately withdrew"
[ant: inconsiderately]
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correctly
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adv 1: in an accurate manner; "the flower had been correctly
depicted by his son"; "he guessed right" [syn:
correctly, right, aright] [ant: incorrectly,
wrong, wrongly]
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corruptly
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adv 1: in a corrupt manner [syn: corruptly, corruptedly]
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courtly
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adj 1: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a
royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: courtly,
formal, stately]
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covertly
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adv 1: in a covert manner; "he did it covertly" [ant: overtly]
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cutely
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adv 1: in an attractive manner; "how cunningly the olive-green
dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her
perfect figure" [syn: cunningly, cutely]
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daughterly
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adj 1: befitting a daughter; "daughterly affection"
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definitely
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adv 1: without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too
expensive"; "she told him off in spades"; "by all odds
they should win" [syn: decidedly, unquestionably,
emphatically, definitely, in spades, by all odds]
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deliberately
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adv 1: with intention; in an intentional manner; "he used that
word intentionally"; "I did this by choice" [syn:
intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on
purpose, purposely, advisedly, by choice, by
design] [ant: accidentally, by chance,
circumstantially, unexpectedly, unintentionally]
2: in a deliberate unhurried manner; "she was working
deliberately" [syn: measuredly, deliberately]
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delicately
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adv 1: in a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine
drawn body" [syn: finely, fine, delicately,
exquisitely]
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desolately
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adv 1: in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting
circumstances or prospects [syn: desolately,
disconsolately]
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desperately
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adv 1: with great urgency; "health care reform is needed
urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash" [syn:
urgently, desperately]
2: in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her
mother"
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devoutly
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adv 1: in a devout and pious manner; "she was devoutly Catholic"
[syn: devoutly, piously]
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digitally
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adv 1: by means of the fingers; "the exam was carried out
digitally"
2: in terms of integers; "the time was digitally displayed"
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directly
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adv 1: without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake";
"went direct to the office" [syn: directly, straight,
direct]
2: without anyone or anything intervening; "these two factors
are directly related"; "he was directly responsible";
"measured the physical properties directly"
3: without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he
answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an
official accused of dishonesty should be suspended
forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: immediately,
instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly,
now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shot]
4: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't
answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for
less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight]
[ant: indirectly]
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dirtily
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adv 1: in a sordid manner; "as dirtily drunk as usual"
2: in a filthy unclean manner; "a dirtily dressed camel driver"
[syn: dirtily, filthily]
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disconsolately
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adv 1: in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting
circumstances or prospects [syn: desolately,
disconsolately]
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dispassionately
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adv 1: in an impartially dispassionate manner; "although he was
looking at the other girl, he did so dispassionately"
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distinctly
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adv 1: clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment;
"it's distinctly possible"; "I could clearly see myself
in his situation" [syn: distinctly, clearly]
2: in a distinct and distinguishable manner; "the subtleties of
this distinctly British occasion"
3: to a distinct degree; "urbanization in Spain is distinctly
correlated with a fall in reproductive rate"
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dully
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adv 1: without liveliness; "she nodded her head dully"
2: without luster or shine; "the light shone dully through the
haze"; "unpolished buttons glinted dully"
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gully
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n 1: deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a
prolonged downpour)
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haughtily
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adv 1: in a haughty manner; "he peered haughtily down his nose"
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mightily
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adv 1: powerfully or vigorously; "he strove mightily to achieve
a better position in life"
2: (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree; "the
baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful
humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right
nice place"; "they rejoiced mightily" [syn: mighty,
mightily, powerful, right]
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mortally
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adv 1: in such a manner that death ensues (also in reference to
hatred, jealousy, fear, etc.); "a being of whom the
forest Indians are said to be mortally afraid, with a
hoof shaped like the heel of a bottle"
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naughtily
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adv 1: 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]
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quarterly
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adv 1: in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon; "two
coats of arms borne quarterly"
2: in three month intervals; "interest is compounded quarterly"
[syn: quarterly, every quarter]
adj 1: of or relating to or consisting of a quarter; "quarterly
report"
n 1: a periodical that is published every quarter (or four
issues per year)
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snootily
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adv 1: in a snobbish manner; "they snobbishly excluded their
less wealthy friends from the party" [syn: snobbishly,
snootily, uppishly]
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subtly
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adv 1: in a subtle manner; "late nineteenth-century French opera
at its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight
melancholy"
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sully
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n 1: United States painter (born in England) of portraits and
historical scenes (1783-1872) [syn: Sully, Thomas
Sully]
2: French statesman (1560-1641) [syn: Sully, Duc de Sully,
Maxmilien de Bethune]
v 1: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's
reputation" [syn: defile, sully, corrupt, taint,
cloud]
2: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used
metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long
exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the
affair with a married man" [syn: tarnish, stain,
maculate, sully, defile]
3: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name
and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!"
"The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn:
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate,
calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch]
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totally
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adv 1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent
(`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was
wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal";
"it was completely different from what we expected"; "was
completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the
directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her
fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea"
[syn: wholly, entirely, completely, totally,
all, altogether, whole] [ant: part, partially,
partly]
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utterly
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adv 1: completely and without qualification; used informally as
intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a
perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right";
"utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my
innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn:
absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead]
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vitally
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adv 1: to a vital degree; "this is vitally important"
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appositely
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capitally
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compositely
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consummately
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corporately
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degenerately
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disparately
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flightily
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genitally
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immortally
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sportily
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throatily
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