Critically
['krɪtɪklɪ] or ['krɪtɪkli]
Definition
(adv.) in a critical manner; 'this must be examined critically'.
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Definition
(adv.) In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly.
(adv.) At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated.
Editor: Simon
Examples
- One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And he watched the other man critically. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It's very good, said Amy critically. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mrs. Peniston examined her critically. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She surveyed him critically. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- How could it occur to her to examine the letter, to look at it critically as a profession of love? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She could not bear him, critically, and yet she enjoyed being rushed through the dance, and tossed up into the air, on his coarse, powerful impetus. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Holmes pulled it off and examined it critically. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Simon