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candidly
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adv 1: (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it
is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe
it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience";
"frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: honestly,
candidly, frankly]
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confoundedly
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adv 1: in a perplexed manner; "he looked at his professor
perplexedly" [syn: perplexedly, confoundedly]
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decidedly
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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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high
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adv 1: at a great altitude; "he climbed high on the ladder"
[syn: high, high up]
2: in or to a high position, amount, or degree; "prices have
gone up far too high"
3: in a rich manner; "he lives high" [syn: high, richly,
luxuriously]
4: far up toward the source; "he lives high up the river"
adj 1: greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "a
high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his
career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "the river is
high"; "he has a high opinion of himself" [ant: low]
2: (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or
specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in
combinations like `knee-high'); "a high mountain"; "high
ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high
incline"; "a foot high" [ant: low]
3: standing above others in quality or position; "people in high
places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the
community" [syn: eminent, high]
4: used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency [syn:
high, high-pitched] [ant: low, low-pitched]
5: happy and excited and energetic [syn: high, in high
spirits]
6: (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted [syn:
gamey, gamy, high]
7: slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug
(especially marijuana) [syn: high, mellow]
n 1: a lofty level or position or degree; "summer temperatures
reached an all-time high" [ant: low]
2: an air mass of higher than normal pressure; "the east coast
benefits from a Bermuda high"
3: a state of sustained elation; "I'm on a permanent high these
days" [ant: low spirits]
4: a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or
narcotics; "they took drugs to get a high on"
5: a high place; "they stood on high and observed the
countryside"; "he doesn't like heights" [syn: high,
heights]
6: a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through
12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool" [syn: senior
high school, senior high, high, highschool, high
school]
7: a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest
vehicle velocity for a given engine speed [syn: high gear,
high]
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lopsidedly
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adv 1: in a crooked lopsided manner; "he smiled lopsidedly"
[syn: lopsidedly, crookedly]
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offhandedly
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adv 1: without previous thought or preparation; "couldn't give
the figures offhand"; "we decided offhand to go to
Canada"; "she had made these remarks offhandedly" [syn:
offhand, offhanded, offhandedly]
2: in a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his
mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly
without even a Dear-John letter" [syn: offhand,
offhanded, offhandedly]
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simple
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adj 1: having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved;
"a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple
design"; "a simple substance" [ant: complex]
2: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem
in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple
game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" [syn:
elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic]
3: apart from anything else; without additions or modifications;
"only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the
simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" [syn:
bare(a), mere(a), simple(a)]
4: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike
trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed
wonder" [syn: childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-
eyed, simple]
5: lacking mental capacity and subtlety [syn: dim-witted,
simple, simple-minded]
6: (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or
subdivisions [syn: simple, unsubdivided] [ant:
compound]
7: unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black
dress--simple to austerity"
n 1: any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
2: a person lacking intelligence or common sense [syn:
simpleton, simple]
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sordidly
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adv 1: in a sordid or squalid way [syn: sordidly, squalidly]
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splendidly
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adv 1: extremely well; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got
along famously" [syn: excellently, magnificently,
splendidly, famously]
2: in an impressively beautiful manner; "the Princess was
gorgeously dressed" [syn: gorgeously, splendidly,
resplendently, magnificently]
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underhandedly
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adv 1: slyly and secretly; "Mean revenge, committed underhand"-
John Donne; "oldline aristocratic diplomats underhandedly
undermined the attempt...to align Germany with the
Western democracies"- C.G.Bowers [syn: underhandedly,
underhand]
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backhandedly
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misguidedly
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studiedly
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intendedly
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handedly
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hotheadedly
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unboundedly
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