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smally

smally adverb: in a small way.

Adverb

smally (comparative more smally, superlative most smally)

  1. (rare) In a small way.
    • The name of Worstead, a village some ten miles distant from the city, was, indeed, as its name may testify, the birthplace of an important branch of the trade in England; now it is a smally populated, little known spot...1890, HM Factory Inspectorate, Annual report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops
    • Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself.2007 October 28, Richard Ford, “The Noise Is Killing Me”, in New York Times

Forms of smally

comparativemore smally
superlativemost smally

Origin of smally

From small + -ly.

Questions about smally

What does smally mean?
Smally means in a small way.
What part of speech is smally?
Smally is an adverb.

Words near smally in the dictionary

  1. smallwares
  2. smallwig
  3. smallwigs
  4. Smallwood
  5. Smallwoods
  6. smally
  7. Smallzried
  8. smalm
  9. smalmed
  10. smalmiest
  11. smalming

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