Remotely
[rɪ'məʊtlɪ] or [rɪ'motli]
Definition
(adv.) to a remote degree; 'it is remotely possible'.
(adv.) in a remote manner; 'when the measured speech of the chorus passes over into song the tones are, remotely but unmistakably, those taught by the orthodox liturgy'.
Edited by Leah--From WordNet
Examples
- There was no field remotely connected with electric lighting that he did not enter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For the discovery of man's descent from sub-human forms does not even remotely touch the teaching of the Kingdom of Heaven. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the power to make him so lay in her hand--lay there in a completeness he could not even remotely conjecture. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was what I remotely dreaded when I was first impelled to stay away from England. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I knew him before he gave me one of those aids, though, a moment before, I had not been conscious of remotely suspecting his identity. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- What if any act of hers and of his father's, should have even remotely brought the grey heads of those two brothers so low! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I have begun to fear, remotely, that the day may never shine, when I shall see my child-wife running in the sunlight with her old friend Jip. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Edited by Leah