Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a handsome manner; agreeably; generously.
- Nautical, carefully and steadily; in shipshape style: as, to lower handsomely.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a handsome manner.
- adv. (Naut.) Carefully; in shipshape style.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a generously handsome manner
- adv. in an attractively handsome manner
Examples
“First of all, they have benefitted handsomely from the rigged economy that we have been living in for 25 years.”
“The Chinese government profits handsomely from the labor camp system by allowing goods made with forced labor to enter both domestic and international markets.”
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“The BofACEO is one of very few who benefited handsomely from the financial crisis and may have had a part in causing the disaster, he don't deserve squat!”
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“These banks are profiting handsomely from the exploitation of minority communities, behavior they disguise by using payday lenders as their "undercover brothers.”
“The reason exhaust modifications can pay off so handsomely is because engine performance boils down to combustion efficiency.”
“He said the band has continued to profit handsomely from the sale of its back catalog on CD.”
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“Mr. Cheney still holds hundreds of thousands of stock options that have ballooned by millions of dollars as Halliburton profited handsomely from the war in Iraq.”
“I often play monkeys at scabble and win handsomely ... so its all old nuts to me”
“And how to deal with the Jenna Jamesons of the world, who were proving themselves to be feminist powerhouses, keeping the government out of private decisions about their own bodies (thank you, abortion rhetoric!) and profiting handsomely from the results?”
“Some former players and baseball writers were concerned he could profit handsomely from the admission with a highly publicized best-selling book.”
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Interesting words
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Words from Great Expectations
Just basically a few words I stumbled upon while reading Great Expectations. It is full of words long-since unused, you see. Also my vocabulary is about the size of a walnut. This starts from page ...
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