thusly
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ˈðʌs.li/
Definition of thusly
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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(not-comparable, proscribed)thus (in this way).
“Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem!”
“His course can only be akkounted for thusly:”
“He had an attack of catarrh not long ago, and it happened, as J. Billings would say, "thusly:"”
“Stories never lose anything in the recital, and consequently this one grew thusly.”
“The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."”
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adv
-
(not-comparable, proscribed)thus (in this way).
“Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem!”
“His course can only be akkounted for thusly:”
“He had an attack of catarrh not long ago, and it happened, as J. Billings would say, "thusly:"”
“Stories never lose anything in the recital, and consequently this one grew thusly.”
“The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."”
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(not-comparable, proscribed)thus (therefore)
“Lately, they [the prison authorities] came up with a new excuse. Seems like they consider owning a Gay publication is an expression of a person's sexuality and would thusly identify the person as a homosexual which would then subject him to assault or pressures.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From thus + -ly, dating from the 19th century, seemingly coined by educated writers to make fun of uneducated persons trying to sound genteel, with a false inference that thus is not an adverb.
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