Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. To a conspicuous degree; notably.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a signal manner; conspicuously; eminently; memorably: as, their plot failed signally.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a signal manner; conspicuously
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a signal manner; eminently.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. as a signal
- adv. in a signal manner
Examples
“It was threatened to be withdrawn on their disobedience or apostasy; and most signally is the execution of that threatening seen in the present sterility of Palestine.”
“Formerly, it was a common thing for most of the leading _party_-papers, especially in the large cities, to speak of the abolitionists in terms signally disrespectful and offensive.”
“But Hawke, whose name signally represents the bold, swift, sure character of the man, understood the design, took the risk, avoided the danger, and clutched the prey.”
“However, I don't think simply "signally" interest is a crime.”
“The courts would surely have thrown out this order, realising the chilling effect it would have had on journalistic inquiry, which in the phone-hacking affair proved the only protection available when both police and politicians so signally failed.”
“On the other hand it would bring more residential into the area and despite the design they might demand better urbanism (like another signally crosswalk at Denny and Minor for direct access to Cascade Park, or even eventually an I-5 lid).”
“We have a common ancestor that evolved intercellular signalling (for e.g. colonialism, mating), a function which was expanded in certain lineages, (esp. metazoans that used those signally functions to coordinate across specialized tissues).”
“If the plays that made his name are not pure propaganda, they certainly exhorted audiences to have the courage of the convictions he himself would signally betray.”
“Modernization, while being the hardest of the three to define, is still clearly an expression of the need for Russia to reduce its dependency on natural resources, and move to an economy based more on knowledge and skills—something the country signally failed to do under Mr. Putin's management.”
The Wall Street Journal: Medvedev Puts Russia in a Choice Situation
“Unlike, say, a bag of pot, a computer is something you generally expect to have and use for a while, and which may well require some kind of extended relationship with the manufacturer, which makes black market production signally unattractive.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘signally’.
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Pneumatologia
Terms and phrases from John Owen's (1616-1683) theological writings, to some of which the collective title Pneumatologia has been posthumously applied. Some few of the terms listed herein are Septu...
superstruction, despond, Socinians, unbeholden, unwarrantable, ulcerous, posthume, Photinians, Pelagians, virulently, unavoidably, putid and 221 more...
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Obviously!
Adverbs to make it perfectly clear that what I'm talking about is 100% correct, beyond the shadow of a doubt, no debate required thankyouverymuch. If you can't see that, you need to get your head e...
obviously, clearly, plainly, undeniably, simply, unquestionably, certainly, indubitably, expectedly, unsurprisingly, definitely, glaringly and 31 more...
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