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basically
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adv 1: in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature;
"He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was
essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is
in essence a shy person" [syn: basically,
fundamentally, essentially]
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classically
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adv 1: in the manner of Greek and Roman culture; "this exercise
develops a classically shaped body"
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farcically
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adv 1: in a farcical manner; "a farcically inept bungler"
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intrinsically
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adv 1: with respect to its inherent nature; "this statement is
interesting per se" [syn: intrinsically, per se, as
such, in and of itself]
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lexically
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adv 1: by means of words; "lexically represented"
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metaphysically
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adv 1: in a metaphysical manner; "he thinks metaphysically"
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musically
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adv 1: in a musical manner; "She sang very musically" [ant:
unmusically]
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paradoxically
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adv 1: in a paradoxical manner; "paradoxically, ice ages seem to
occur when the sun gets hotter"
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physically
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adv 1: in accord with physical laws; "it is physically
impossible"
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prickly
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adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White
House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful";
"witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly,
prickly, splenetic, waspish]
2: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines
or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane";
"bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled,
bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose,
setaceous, spiny, thorny]
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quickly
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adv 1: with rapid movements; "he works quickly" [syn: quickly,
rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace] [ant:
easy, slow, slowly, tardily]
2: with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly";
"come here, quick!" [syn: promptly, quickly, quick]
3: without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the
magazine" [syn: cursorily, quickly]
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quizzically
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adv 1: in a quizzical and questioning manner; "they looked
quizzically at the doctor" [syn: questioningly,
quizzically]
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sickly
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adj 1: unhealthy looking [syn: sallow, sickly]
2: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing
grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a
little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is
unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed,
peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the
weather, seedy]
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slickly
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adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn:
glibly, slickly]
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strictly
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adv 1: restricted to something; "we talked strictly business"
[syn: strictly, purely]
2: in a stringent manner; "the laws are stringently enforced";
"stringently controlled" [syn: strictly, stringently]
3: in a rigorous manner; "he had been trained rigorously by the
monks" [syn: rigorously, strictly]
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thickly
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adv 1: spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue;
"after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly"
2: in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely
packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for
every new one built"; "a thickly populated area" [syn:
densely, thickly] [ant: thinly]
3: with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick" [syn:
thickly, thick] [ant: thin, thinly]
4: with thickness; in a thick manner; "spread 1/4 lb softened
margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the
surface"; "we were visiting a small, thickly walled and
lovely town with straggling outskirt" [ant: lightly,
thinly]
5: in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn:
thick, thickly]
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unethically
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adv 1: in an unethical manner; "he behaved unethically" [ant:
ethically]
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whimsically
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adv 1: in a fanciful manner; "the Christmas tree was fancifully
decorated" [syn: fancifully, whimsically]
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biophysically
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extrinsically
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forensically
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monolithically
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nonsensically
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psychopathically
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telepathically
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empathically
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