Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a reserved manner; with reserve; without openness or frankness; cautiously; coldly.
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- adverb In a
reserved manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with reserve; in a reserved manner
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Examples
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to say nothing of their abuse of law and rule face it, for every example of a "benevolent," and I use that term reservedly, monarch, there's 10 others that are really, really bad.
FISA in One Syllable Words. Rogers 2006
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Well, folks, I'd say this woman (and I use the word reservedly) can live for a year or so on all that blubber.
The Sudden Curve: 2005
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Well, folks, I'd say this woman (and I use the word reservedly) can live for a year or so on all that blubber.
BWAHAHAHA!!! 2005
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Former Richmond player Mal Brown says he apologises only "reservedly" for what he maintains was intended as a humorous description of Aboriginal footballers as cannibals.
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Former Richmond player Mal Brown says he apologises only "reservedly" for what he maintains was intended as a humorous description of Aboriginal footballers as cannibals.
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Even so, his mother did her best to respect her son's wishes by dressing more reservedly, not to mention uncomfortably in the summer heat, in Orthodox fashion, and creating a more kosher kitchen, one that adhered to the laws from biblical days.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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Even so, his mother did her best to respect her son's wishes by dressing more reservedly, not to mention uncomfortably in the summer heat, in Orthodox fashion, and creating a more kosher kitchen, one that adhered to the laws from biblical days.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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Even so, his mother did her best to respect her son's wishes by dressing more reservedly, not to mention uncomfortably in the summer heat, in Orthodox fashion, and creating a more kosher kitchen, one that adhered to the laws from biblical days.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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Even so, his mother did her best to respect her son's wishes by dressing more reservedly, not to mention uncomfortably in the summer heat, in Orthodox fashion, and creating a more kosher kitchen, one that adhered to the laws from biblical days.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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Even so, his mother did her best to respect her son's wishes by dressing more reservedly, not to mention uncomfortably in the summer heat, in Orthodox fashion, and creating a more kosher kitchen, one that adhered to the laws from biblical days.
Carol Hoenig: A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands Carol Hoenig 2010
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