Adverb
For reasons that are easy to understand or sympathise with.
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Understandably, he was too embarrassed to speak.
Embarrassed, he understandably refused to speak.
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He was understandably embarrassed, and could not speak.
Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.
In an understandable manner.
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When presenting in front of the class, take care to speak clearly and understandably.
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Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.
Adverb
in an intelligible manner
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the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly