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- adverb In an
American manner; in a way characteristic of Americans.
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Examples
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Wired: Britishly composed, even while performing Americanly dumb maneuvers.
What's a Supercar? It Does 200 MPH, Corners Like Cling Wrap, Attracts the Law. 2008
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So that's the blues and the jazz I have been Americanly faithful to since my youth.
Who Are You? The Daily Growler 2006
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He looked at her smiling face, conscious, perhaps, of deep waters, but youthfully, Americanly, unconscious of serious obstacle to his desire to smooth things out.
The Silver Spoon 2004
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They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental.
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“Americanly chivalrous to the fingertips, and with just enough of the primitive animal in him to ward off monotony.”
Maurice Guest 2003
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Tweetie was so amazingly, Americanly pretty that she could have triumphed over a pet name twice as absurd.
Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926
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She would sleep one night alone under a public bench in a park, and another night, with all sorts of nights between, she would sleep in a bed where a duchess had lain, and in arms Americanly royal.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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And yet, without the remotest hint of hardness, she gave him such a distinct impression of poise and equilibrium, she seemed so able to meet anything that might come, to understand it -- even to laugh at it -- so Americanly capable and sure of the event, that in spite of her pale cheek he could not feel quite so protective as he wished to feel.
The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907
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For our novelists to try to write Americanly, from any motive, would be a dismal error, but being born Americans, I then use "Americanisms" whenever these serve their turn; and when their characters speak, I should like to hear them speak true American, with all the varying Tennesseean, Philadelphian,
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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For our novelists to try to write Americanly, from any motive, would be a dismal error, but being born Americans, I then use "Americanisms" whenever these serve their turn; and when their characters speak, I should like to hear them speak true American, with all the varying Tennesseean, Philadelphian,
Criticism and Fiction William Dean Howells 1878
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