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  • adverb Scotland In a timely manner.

Etymologies

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From timeous.

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Examples

  • It also timeously destroys Mr. Speaker Martin's self-serving and pompous valediction in which he sought to claim that if MPs had adopted proposals made last year, all would have been well, the implication being that he had been at the forefront of such changes and had been thwarted by the House.

    Archive 2009-06-14 2009

  • It also timeously destroys Mr. Speaker Martin's self-serving and pompous valediction in which he sought to claim that if MPs had adopted proposals made last year, all would have been well, the implication being that he had been at the forefront of such changes and had been thwarted by the House.

    Expenses: The Commons Exocets Itself 2009

  • If you needed more, his serial failure to declare donations to the Electoral Commission timeously, which were, on the face of it, criminal offences add considerable lustre to his reputation for sleaze.

    Archive 2008-01-20 2008

  • If you needed more, his serial failure to declare donations to the Electoral Commission timeously, which were, on the face of it, criminal offences add considerable lustre to his reputation for sleaze.

    Just Desserts for Author of 'Tidying-up Exercise' 2008

  • Unless those people can provide a satisfactory explanation for their failure properly to act timeously, they must be dismissed.

    Archive 2007-09-30 2007

  • It soon became all too obvious that such a plan, if it existed, was not exactly being executed timeously.

    Archive 2007-09-16 2007

  • However, I would not excercise myself too much if, in an extreme scenario, one of our chaps, decided that the only way to obtain certain information timeously, was to waterboard a suspected terrorist warlord.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Unless those people can provide a satisfactory explanation for their failure properly to act timeously, they must be dismissed.

    Questions for David Miliband 2007

  • It soon became all too obvious that such a plan, if it existed, was not exactly being executed timeously.

    Breaking The Link 2007

  • "If they made the drugs accessible long ago, my sister would still be alive," said Moloi, who remains angry at the government's failure to act timeously.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

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