Word of the Day:
loosely
What It Means
In a loose manner.
Not tightly.
It's red, to use the term loosely, sort of brown and sort of orange, let's call it reddish.
Loosely in Context
“It was an April Fool hoax, of course. 31200 had been rigged up with a single lightweight wooden [name] plate (loosely held on by Blu Tack).”
Did You Know?
From Middle English lously; equivalent to loose + -ly.
Source and license
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