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smally en · ADV

Etymology

From small + -ly.

Meanings

1. (rare) In a small way.
   • The name of Worstead, a village some ten miles distant from the city, was, indeed, as its name may testify, the birthplace of an important branch of the trade in England; now it is a smally populated, little known spot... 1890, HM Factory Inspectorate, Annual report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops:
   • Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself. 2007 October 28, Richard Ford, “The Noise Is Killing Me”, in New York Times:

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