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Etymology
Etymology tree English various Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English variously From various + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In various ways; diversely.
Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.
2008 October 29, Margalit Fox, “Damiano, 80, directed 'Deep Throat'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2022:My caravan served variously as a changing room, office and bedroom.