Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a manner not to be forgotten; so as to be worthy of remembrance.

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  • adverb In a memorable manner.

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  • adverb in a memorable manner

Etymologies

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memorable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Sen. John McCain memorably and admirably shut down this sort of talk when it started cropping up at his campaign rallies.

    Wonk Room » Krauthammer Tours The Border Of Gaffneyland 2009

  • The Big One, as George RR Martin memorably called it at TorCon, the Hugo for Best Novel, went to Michael Chabon for The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and was appropriately accepted by George RR Martin -- who was singled out in the acceptance speech for having inspired Chabon's melding of SF and literary style in the first place; that's George RR Martin to the left, signing photographs earlier.

    Denvention: Day 3 ewillett 2008

  • But what lingers, memorably, is the conundrum of why they ever did.

    A Quiet Genius 2001

  • But what lingers, memorably, is the conundrum of why they ever did.

    A Quiet Genius 2001

  • He plays a drug - and sex-crazed parody of himself in short, memorably over-the-top cameos.

    The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories 2010

  • Characterized in memorably Schlegelian terms by Jerome McGann as "the completed form of criticism" (1983, 56), this approach produces knowledge in the form of two, closely intertwined (liberal) utopias: that of a steadily advancing, "deeply-interpretive" and, eventually, all-encompassing contextualism and (my focus for today) the fantasy of retroactively liberating the aesthetic object from the "visible darkness" (to use Marjorie Levinson's Miltonic and Blakean phrase) of its own referential obfuscations. (

    Bringing About the Past 1997

  • Why hasn't there been a sequel to the Tiananmen Uprising, ending this time not in a massacre like that of June 4, 1989, but in China getting with the program of the trend that some two decades ago Ken Jowitt dubbed memorably (even if somewhat inaccurately as it turned out) the "Leninist Extinction"?

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom: The German Wall That Fell - And the Chinese Regime That Didn't 2009

  • On September 8, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice coined a memorably ominous phrase on a Sunday talk show when she said, “while there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly” Saddam Hussein can acquire nuclear weapons, “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

    State of War James Risen 2006

  • On the strength of the Taylor-Corbett production's initial five-day run it is scheduled to return next year with a still-undetermined cast, "Sins" continues to live more memorably in the history books than on stage.

    Seven Sins, Both Deadly and Dull Robert Greskovic 2011

  • On the flip side, his political talk — and some memorably eccentric celebrity contestants — have helped further his TV agenda, with Apprentice giving NBC some of its highest Sunday night ratings in the advertised-prized 18-to-34 demographic.

    Donald Trump Not Running for President, to Continue Celebrity Apprentice 2011

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