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secretarially

secretarially adverb: in secretarial fashion.

Adverb

secretarially (comparative more secretarially, superlative most secretarially)

  1. In secretarial fashion.
    • I spent my adolescence touch-typing, convinced my life would be passed secretarially, my left pinkie building novelty muscle manning the A. Then the technology changed, and I improvised an inelegant three-finger style for computer keyboards.2009 April 5, Virginia Heffernan, “I Hate My iPhone”, in New York Times

Forms of secretarially

comparativemore secretarially
superlativemost secretarially

Origin of secretarially

From secretarial + -ly.

Questions about secretarially

What does secretarially mean?
Secretarially means in secretarial fashion.
What part of speech is secretarially?
Secretarially is an adverb.

Words near secretarially in the dictionary

  1. secretaires
  2. Secretan's syndrome
  3. secretaress
  4. secretaresses
  5. secretarial
  6. secretarially
  7. secretarian
  8. secretariat
  9. secretariate
  10. secretariates
  11. secretariats

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