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blanketly

blanketly adverb: in a blanket manner: in a manner that covers or encompasses all of the things under consideration (sometimes despite differences among the various things).

Adverb

blanketly (not comparable)

  1. In a blanket manner: in a manner that covers or encompasses all of the things under consideration (sometimes despite differences among the various things).
    • That foul culpability went unaddressed by John Paul II. Not so much glossed over as blanketly ignored.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 161
    • to blanketly apply a rule

Origin of blanketly

From blanket + -ly.

Questions about blanketly

What does blanketly mean?
Blanketly means in a blanket manner: in a manner that covers or encompasses all of the things under consideration (sometimes despite differences among the various things).
What part of speech is blanketly?
Blanketly is an adverb.

Words near blanketly in the dictionary

  1. blanketing
  2. blanketings
  3. blanketless
  4. blanketlessness
  5. blanketlike
  6. blanketly
  7. blanketmaker
  8. blanketmakers
  9. blanketmaking
  10. blanketman
  11. blanketmen

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