Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a meaning manner; significantly; with intention: as, to look at a person meaningly.
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- adverb With an implied
meaning ; with significance;meaningfully .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You gave Joe money to have the landlady's testimony agree with his; she never got that money, "meaningly," but gave the desired evidence.
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"By-the-by," meaningly, "when you find yourself in the village, Davlin, it might not be amiss to show yourself at the inn."
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But, "-- meaningly --" if you were to stow yourself away in the eyes of the gig it is just possible that the captain might not notice you until we had got too far from the ship to turn back.
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If you don't, "-- meaningly --" you and I'll have some old scores to settle. "
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A “law” which cannot be meaningly enforced may still exist “De Jure”, but has already been “de facto” repealed.
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“Have you never thought of setting up house?” she murmured meaningly.
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After the revelations of Ben Trafford's past track record and including his level of honesty and truthfulness in business dealing, his criminal record for fraud and deceit and deceitful business practices, his swindling of employees and investors and handing out bad checks, I can't regard his comments here as either benignly or well-meaningly fomented.
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Which of these methods does more lasting harm, the malignly blunt or the well-meaningly insidious?
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How do dumb people fall for this meaningly pandoring??
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A “law” which cannot be meaningly enforced may still exist “De Jure”, but has already been “de facto” repealed.
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