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• Minguet aptly describes Padrós as the Bartleby of Spanish and Catalan film: both a part and apart.2020, Steven Marsh, Spanish Cinema Against Itself: Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy, Indiana Unviersity Press. From the entry Bartleby
• The exhausted fish came boatside and was aptly secured in the net.2017, C.L. Marshall, Hunting & Fishing the Chesapeake. From the entry boatside
• It is more aptly described as a context: masculinity as enacted by people with transgender identities.2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197. From the entry transmasculinity
• We need to acquaint ourselves with what might aptly be called the view from nowhen.1996, Huw Price, Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point, Oxford University Press. From the entry nowhen
• As a recent article in the Wall Street Journal aptly noted, competitors sense blood in the water.1995 May 29, John Gallant, Network World. From the entry blood in the water
• Critics have aptly borrowed those terms to characterize the difference between Mr.1986 December 28, John Barth, “A Few Words About Minimalism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry maximalist
• But sesquipedalophobia ('hatred or fear of big words,' aptly enough) has prevailed, even among men of learning.1983, Verbatim, volume 10, page 25. From the entry sesquipedalophobia
• To put it aptly: I'm in my healthmaxxing era.2026 May 12, Yvette King, “Healthmaxxing: I tried a ChatGPT-designed wellness reset”, in Vogue Singapore, Singapore: Indochine Media…. From the entry healthmaxxing
• Silolona and Si Datu Bua are aptly named: the former after a beloved local god; the latter meaning “beloved princess”.2025 October 3, Lisa Grainger, “Exploring Indonesia’s coastline in a pair of handmade boats”, in The Times, archived from the original on…. From the entry Indonesiaphile
• And although Paul shares an apartment with his prim wife, aptly named Prudence, they rarely see or speak to each other.2024 October 24, Judith Shulevitz, “Michel Houellebecq Has Some Fresh Predictions. Be Afraid.”, in The Atlantic. From the entry prim
• The longest film ever produced and shown was 85 hours long and was aptly titled The Cure for Insomnia.2017, Sandy Silverthorne, “Movie Fun, Part 1”, in Two Truths and a Tall Tale: A True or False Trivia Challenge for the Whole Family…. From the entry moviegoing
• Few birds are as aptly named as the Morepork.2008, David Stirling, “Belly Up in the Kauri Trees”, in Birds, Beasts and a Bike under the Southern Cross, Victoria, B.C.: Agio Publishing…. From the entry morepork
• Find the park's western edge and spill out into aptly named Park Slope -- a crown jewel of Brooklyn neighborhoods.2007 November 18 (Sunday), Joann Klimkiewicz, "Fugheddaboud what you think you know about Brooklyn", The Hartford Courant. From the entry Sesame Street
• The ritual, which Rosenfeld has aptly described as very Buñuelesque in its religious overtones, is quite effective symbolically.1975, Donald A. Yates, Otros mundos, otros fuegos, page 370. From the entry Buñuelesque
• This is a very strong move, aptly timed.1961 February, Max Euwe, “How to Win in the Ending”, in Chess Review. From the entry initiate
• Burr's policies with regard to political organizations are aptly described in Parton's Life of Jackson as the "Burrian code".1916, Civil Service Reform Association, Report of the Executive Committee of the New York Civil-Service Reform Association, page 6. From the entry Burrian
• A great gathering of the lost, the waste, " the drift of both banks," as my Officer-guide aptly puts it.1906, Annie S. (Swan) Smith, The outsiders. From the entry netherdom
• The aptly named Blue Box Cafe is kitted out in marble Tiffany blue, and offers a Holly Golightly-inspired experience from $29 a head.2019 November 19, Chloe Foussianes, “Tiffany & Co's Famous Blue Box Cafe Will Close for Two Years”, in Town and Country. From the entry Tiffany blue
• In other words, privacy policies are more aptly referred to as surveillance policies, and that is what I suggest we call them.2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 8, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. From the entry privacy policy
• Aptly enough, glowworms light up their underworld with a pair of chemicals that have a satanic etymology—luciferins and luciferases, after the Latin for “light bringer.”2017 October 6, Ed Yong, “The Most Beautiful Death Trap”, in The Atlantic. From the entry luciferase
• Specimens of the aptly named devil’s fingers and the coral-like hazel gloves were spotted nestling in the undergrowth at Devon Wildlife Trust sites.2014 December 20, “Two rare fungi found on Devon wildlife sites”, in The Western Morning News, Plymouth, England, page 4. From the entry devil's fingers
• I even found the perfect venue to display my new It-girl persona: the aptly named It-girls premiere party for the It-girls documentary.2003, Melissa de la Cruz, Karen Robinovitz, How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less. From the entry it girl
• The traditional conceit that places China in the middle of the world is aptly reflected in the diffusion of the ten kings westward and eastward.1994, Stephen F. Teiser, The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Honolulu: University of…. From the entry T'u-lu-fan
• In this business of pluviculture (as I have nicely named it) the operator (aptly called a "quacktitioner") promises showers on a thirsty land.1927, D.S. Jordan, chapter II, in Higher Foolishness, page 66. From the entry pluviculture
• Meantime, these same Spaniards are “suffering examinations,” as they aptly say, in Madrid; Miss Webb is with them and writes of their progress.1903, Life and Light for Heathen Women, volume 33, page 397. From the entry Española
• David Brooks ("The Structure of Gratitude," column, July 28) dubiously characterizes American society as a "capitalist meritocracy." I suggest that we are more aptly described as a "capitalist inheritocracy."2015 August 3, Daniel Rigney, “The Politics of Gratitude”, in The New York Times (letter to the editor), page A.18. From the entry inheritocracy
• The commonly used term "ice mantle" is someone misleading, since the substance is actually a hot, slushy mixture that would be more aptly described as a water–ammonia ocean.2010 December 2, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Principles of Planetary Climate, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry ice
• Proper – property – appropriate: signally an emphasis on self-identity, self-aggrandizement and arrogative dominance, these words aptly characterize the logic of the proper according to Cixous.2002, Toril Moi, Sexual/textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, page 109. From the entry arrogative
• His embalmed corpse, exhibited to this day in the mausoleum in Moscow, aptly symbolizes the new order which, he promised, was soon to embrace all mankind.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry mausoleum
• West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56. From the entry appalled
• One of the most popular social video-sharing apps is Musical.ly, a music-sharing app that allows “Musers” (as users are aptly named) to post videos of themselves lip synching to songs.2018, Ana Homayoun, Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World, Corwin, →ISBN. From the entry muser
• Another is the smoldering radicalism of eternal student Terrence Moses (Marc Ewing, aptly intense), once the family’s tutor, now smitten with Anna and perhaps the clearest-eyed person in the play.2009 July 2, David C. Nichols, “Theater review: ‘The Cherry Orchard’ at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum”, in Los Angeles Times, Los…. From the entry clear-eyed

Meaning of aptly

1. adverb In an apt or suitable manner; fittingly; appropriately; suitably.

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How do you use aptly in a sentence?

Aptly is used as an adverb. For example: “My friend, aptly nicknamed “Shorty”, was small but strong.”

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“an aptly named hotel”

What does aptly mean?

Aptly means in an apt or suitable manner; fittingly; appropriately; suitably.