Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an apposite manner; suitably; fitly; appropriately; pertinently.

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  • adverb In an apposite manner.

Etymologies

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apposite +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Here he deploys dialogue — which makes up perhaps 80 percent of the novel — brilliantly, to convey action and narrative, mores and social background, and above all, character (Norman Mailer appositely wrote that Higgins may be “the American writer who is closest to Henry Green”).

    New Fiction 2010

  • The Cylon Raider could superficially be referring to the “contact with extraterrestrials” or, more appositely, to the “guardian angel”.

    Matthew Yglesias » How Popular is the Tea Party Movement? 2010

  • Here he deploys dialogue — which makes up perhaps 80 percent of the novel — brilliantly, to convey action and narrative, mores and social background, and above all, character (Norman Mailer appositely wrote that Higgins may be “the American writer who is closest to Henry Green”).

    New Fiction 2010

  • Here he deploys dialogue — which makes up perhaps 80 percent of the novel — brilliantly, to convey action and narrative, mores and social background, and above all, character (Norman Mailer appositely wrote that Higgins may be “the American writer who is closest to Henry Green”).

    New Fiction 2010

  • It is a task — a travail, from which French linguistic origins the word travel is most appositely derived — to which few can possibly look forward.

    Planes, Trains And Miseries Simon Winchester 2010

  • It is a task — a travail, from which French linguistic origins the word travel is most appositely derived — to which few can possibly look forward.

    Planes, Trains And Miseries Simon Winchester 2010

  • It is a task — a travail, from which French linguistic origins the word travel is most appositely derived — to which few can possibly look forward.

    Planes, Trains And Miseries Simon Winchester 2010

  • It is a task — a travail, from which French linguistic origins the word travel is most appositely derived — to which few can possibly look forward.

    Planes, Trains And Miseries Simon Winchester 2010

  • It is a task — a travail, from which French linguistic origins the word travel is most appositely derived — to which few can possibly look forward.

    Planes, Trains And Miseries Simon Winchester 2010

  • It is a task — a travail, from which French linguistic origins the word travel is most appositely derived — to which few can possibly look forward.

    Planes, Trains And Miseries Simon Winchester 2010

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