Differently
['dɪfərəntlɪ] or ['dɪfərəntli]
Definition
(adv.) in another and different manner; 'very soon you will know differently'; 'she thought otherwise'; 'there is no way out other than the fire escape';.
Edited by Clare--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a different manner; variously.
Typist: Paul
Examples
- I cannot bear to think that there might be something which I did not know, and which, if I had known it, would have made me act differently. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If Rose had--I cannot utter that word now--if this illness had terminated differently, how could you ever have forgiven yourself! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If he has had time to think of it,' said Eugene, 'he has not had time to think better of it--or differently of it, if that's better. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Even if the same data were present, they would be evaluated differently. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But still, not near enough to give me a chance of being right, if we think differently. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The authorities thought differently, however. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For my part, Mr. Bingley, I always keep servants that can do their own work; _my_ daughters are brought up very differently. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Every look and act of Mrs. Bart's seemed to say: You are sorry for him now--but you will feel differently when you see what he has done to us. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I never take it off, nor behave differently to the first duchess in the land! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There are many different kinds of glass, and each kind of glass refracts the light differently. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I probably would not have mentioned this war had it ended differently. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The man who looks at things differently from others is in such a community a suspect character; for him to persist is generally fatal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As if the mere 'differently' didn't account for it! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- At _his_ age, in _his_ place, with _his_ inducements, I would have acted differently. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Perhaps no living man has ever known an attempt to paint the Lord's Supper differently. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That I was inexperienced in the art of adapting my mind to minds very differently situated, and addressing them from suitable points of view. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I see things very differently now. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I believe you are in the right, said Raymond; although I had thought at first to arrange the affair differently. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I might have done differently, and acted more wisely, in all that I subsequently did for my family. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It would be done differently by the white races. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To-day was to be spent quite differently. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If he had come in by the front instead of through the stragglers in the rear, he would have thought and felt differently. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It might--I don't say it would--it might--induce you to think differently. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently affected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr. Darcy walk into the room. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- We think so very differently on this point, Mr. Knightley, that there can be no use in canvassing it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There was no reason to suppose Mr. Elton thought at all differently from his wife. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Until a few months ago he had never known a nice woman who looked at life differently; and if a man married it must necessarily be among the nice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- This sight operated differently on different persons. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have seen too much of Mr. Crawford not to understand his manners; if he understood me as well, he would, I dare say, behave differently. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Paul