Markedly
['mɑːkɪdlɪ]
Definition
(adv.) in a clearly noticeable manner; 'sales of luxury cars dropped markedly'.
Edited by Alison--From WordNet
Examples
- Does the degree and direction of the instinct markedly differ among different individuals or races, or between the two sexes? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I should like some tea, please, said Lydgate, curtly, still scowling and looking markedly at his legs stretched out before him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He now came forward again, and his eye caught the conspicuous stranger, who, rather to his surprise, was staring at him markedly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was nothing markedly abnormal in any of these conditions, which harmonized with my former experiences. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Casaubon turned his eyes very markedly on Dorothea while she was speaking, and seemed to observe her newly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This fundamental principle of human speech was markedly exhibited in Mr. Brooke. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Alison