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Webster 1913 Edition
Smartly
Smart′ly
,adv.
In a smart manner.
Webster 1828 Edition
Smartly
SM'ARTLY
,adv.
1.
With keen pain; as, to ake smartly.2.
Briskly; sharply; wittily.3.
Vigorously; actively.Definition 2024
smartly
smartly
English
Adverb
smartly (not comparable)
- In a smart manner.
- He was dressed smartly.
- Quickly.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter II:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter II:
- Intelligently.