Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Otherwise.
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- adjective Pertaining to something or someone else;
different . - adjective Pertaining or directed toward others;
otherish . - adverb nonstandard
Otherwise ;differently .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are too many programs promoting themselves as pro-inclusion using able-body actors in otherly challenged roles.
John Robinson: The Bad of The Good Wife and Television! John Robinson 2011
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Perhaps the fantasy market is not ready for something quite so otherly, so nostalgic in a determinedly Antipodean way.
MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction? 2009
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He registered the air outside the capsule was colder than inside, but his brain was too removed from the otherly sensation to induce shivering.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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He registered the air outside the capsule was colder than inside, but his brain was too removed from the otherly sensation to induce shivering.
365 tomorrows » A Moment of Uninspiring Clarity : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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There was a little mirror right above me, reminiscent of the ones in a parakeet cage, to give the patient a comforting, otherly face.
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009
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The entire cast is at the top of their game, sporting some truly amazing makeup; while Ron Perlman and Doug Jones continue to delight as Hellboy and Abe Sapien, Selma Blair in particular mines appreciable new depths as firestarter Liz Sherman, now secure in her otherly domesticity with the big lug she calls "Red."
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The entire cast is at the top of their game, sporting some truly amazing makeup; while Ron Perlman and Doug Jones continue to delight as Hellboy and Abe Sapien, Selma Blair in particular mines appreciable new depths as firestarter Liz Sherman, now secure in her otherly domesticity with the big lug she calls "Red."
Archive 2008-07-06 2008
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Instead, they and their followers, by the very fact of seeking such enormous and potentially dangerous power, should be eyed like living wizards -- as otherly and worthy of diligent suspicion.
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He did a tremendous job, as well, describing all the many ways in which otherly abled people are discriminated against in a society which values conformity above all.
10K update and two different views toward wheelchair users, me and my 10K competition Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Kathleen was the most otherly of what Isherwood always called the Others, those Blimps and boors he felt nipping at his heels.
Darling Me 2005
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