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as a matter of factly

as a matter of factly is the nonstandard form of as a matter of fact.

Meaning of as a matter of fact

Prepositional phrase

  1. (adverbial) Actually, in fact.
    • The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth; a pocket-edition of the larger mansions of their friends, but with less excuse for the overelaboration since the dimensions were only twenty by a hundred. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

Origin of as a matter of factly

From as a matter of fact + -ly.

Questions about as a matter of factly

What is as a matter of factly the nonstandard form of?
As a matter of factly is the nonstandard form of as a matter of fact.

Words near as a matter of factly in the dictionary

  1. as
  2. as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly
  3. as a duck takes to water
  4. as a lamb to the slaughter
  5. as a matter of fact
  6. as a matter of factly
  7. as a matter of facts
  8. as a motherfucker
  9. as a mug
  10. as a result
  11. as a rule

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