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  • adverb By rote, in rote fashion; machine-like.

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Examples

  • He responds in kind, rotely, as robotic serial killers — and brothers — do.

    Roush Review: Homeland, Dexter Finales 2011

  • Just Obama-bashing, turd-throwing and parroting Repub talking points rotely without honesty.

    New Obama Radio Ad Hits McCain As "Shameful" For "Makin' Stuff Up" 2009

  • Paglia lamely lambastes "conservative talk radio" for its supposedly claiming — rotely — that every Guantanamo detainee is a proven terrorist who should be "severely punished."

    Paglia's purple piffle. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Then, instead of acknowledging that he made only a promise — a promise devoid of details — to do something a year from now, Paglia lamely lambastes "conservative talk radio" for its supposedly claiming — rotely — that every Guantanamo detainee is a proven terrorist who should be "severely punished."

    Paglia's purple piffle. Ann Althouse 2009

  • The follow-through was in choosing pottery as the core activity, and then abstracting that real-world activity in the specific ways which support the chosen core feeling, as opposed to rotely or aimlessly trying to simulate pottery as a purely mechanical act.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Steve gaynor 2008

  • It was as if the dregs of Truman-to-Eisenhower-era social mandates were being rotely lived out by these older sisters and young aunts of ours; and if you were a middle-class teenage girl in 1960, you peeked across the thin curtain to that desultory looming young-adulthood with dread.

    Sheila Weller: Mad Hopes for the Mad Men Women 2008

  • The follow-through was in choosing pottery as the core activity, and then abstracting that real-world activity in the specific ways which support the chosen core feeling, as opposed to rotely or aimlessly trying to simulate pottery as a purely mechanical act.

    Call to Arms entry 08: Potter Steve gaynor 2008

  • This is a really intriguing approach to the question, "what else could we do with a guitar peripheral besides rotely simulating guitar-playing?"

    Call to Arms entry 04: Sellout Steve gaynor 2008

  • She offered this fact rotely, as if it were of no personal interest to her.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • She offered this fact rotely, as if it were of no personal interest to her.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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