Synonyms for smartly
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : smahrt |
| Phonetic Transcription : smɑrt |
Définition of smartly
Origin :- early 13c., "vigorously," from smart (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "handsomely" is from 1836.
- adv in a lively manner
- The most obvious is to hit him smartly and with precision on the exact tip of the nose.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- I most truly would have liked to shake him smartly for this.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- She also was smartly dressed, with her dazzling linen and scrupulous neatness.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
- In vain she raised her voice, and slapped him smartly on the hands.
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- If he refuses, some one with a whip or switch should apply it smartly.
- Extract from : « On Horsemanship » by Xenophon
- It was smartly raining, when we put in on the stony beach above Rome.
- Extract from : « Afloat on the Ohio » by Reuben Gold Thwaites
- "I'll not enter upon that question," said his Lordship, smartly.
- Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
- He smoked hard—lifted his hand and dropped it smartly to his mantelpiece.
- Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- Subrosa kicked at the trace and flipped it up so that it struck him smartly on the rump.
- Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
- Put me ashore there smartly and you shall find your account.
- Extract from : « The Frozen Pirate » by W. Clark Russell
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