smartly
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/ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/
Adverb
With a fine or fashionable appearance.
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smartly dressed
Quickly.
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She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
He set smartly off towards the shops […]
Intelligently.
Adverb
in a clever manner
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they were cleverly arranged
a smartly managed business
with vigor; in a vigorous manner
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he defended his ideas vigorously
in a smart manner
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He was smartly dressed
Word forms
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