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insidely en · ADV

Etymology

From inside + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an inside or internal manner; internally.
   • You say something outsidely rude and insidely civil about its being my choice to edit; […] 1843, John Warden Robberds, Robert Southey, Sir Walter Scott, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor:
   • And all it means: yet it begins "outsidely", like any other day; even "insidely" — oh, yes, deep inside one, it is different. 1986, Harley Granville-Barker, Eric Salmon, Granville Barker and his correspondents:
   • That is mentally—outsidely, but not insidely. You have not relaxed down through your body at all. 1920, Willard Carver, Psycho-bio-physiology:
   • Five new members in the Connecticut club were taken on a selling campaign, over the hurdles of a couple of shrewd, hard boiled, insidely informed partners in a paint and wallpaper store — one of the roughest trips the quintet ever […] 1922, Painting & Decorating Contractors of America, National painters magazine:

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outsidely