smartly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adverb
[edit]smartly (not comparable)
- In a smart manner.
- He was dressed smartly.
- Quickly.
- 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- Intelligently.
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