Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a changeable manner; inconstantly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a changeable manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a changeable manner.

Etymologies

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changeable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • In a time when show business pros and politicians are rated and reviewed side-by-side and perform inter-changeably, there's only one thing to do, for heaven's sake:

    Dr. Cheryl Pappas: Lighten Up and Let The Good Times Roll 2010

  • And, Clinton can portray Palin as an opportunistic naif, who does not understand the needs or issues of those 18 million voters Palin so breathlessly appealed to, as if they might be so changeably bought by one speech.

    Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Palindromes: It Started with Hillary Clinton and It's Got to End with Hillary Clinton 2008

  • And I just came back from Toronto, where they accept the U.S. dollar inter-changeably at stores, and give you change, in U.S. dollars, if they have it.

    CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2007 2007

  • Firstly, is it correct to use the term MDM, structures and organs of civil society inter-changeably?

    ACCELERATING THE PACE OF CHANGE 1999

  • They were constantly astir, as if winds blew changeably through them.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • She smiled at him with the big, oblique, changeably gold and green eyes and with the lips he remembered.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • What three-dimensional, full-color, changeably expressive, freely moving and speaking wraith?

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • What three-dimensional, full-color, changeably expressive, freely moving and speaking wraith?

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • In a word he is very politic; being governor and, changeably, a trader, he appears friendly because he is both; severe because he is avaricious; and well in neither capacity because they are commingled.

    Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898

  • Deeply and changeably blue, though not romantically large, they were yet youthfully, almost strangely beautiful, with their ambiguity of your scarce knowing if they most carried their possessor's vision out or most opened themselves to your own.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

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