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smartly

  • /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/

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From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.

adverb more smartly · most smartly

  1. With a fine or fashionable appearance. smartly dressed
  2. Quickly. She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
  3. Intelligently.

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"smartly." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/smartly.

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@misc{smartly_2026,
  title = {smartly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smartly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}