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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an idiomatic manner; according to the idiom of a language.

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  • adverb In an idiomatic manner.

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  • adverb in an idiomatic manner

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Examples

  • But he's not shying away from the small screen: tantalizingly on the horizon is an HBO series he recently described as "idiomatically Jewish."

    Author Uses His City, and City Takes Note Nicolas Rapold 2011

  • Mr. Muhly writes idiomatically for voice, and each woman has a distinctive quality, like the bright, edgy soprano of Jennifer Zetlan as Zina, the most dogmatic wife; the mellow, mournful sound of Jennifer Check as Almera, who looks forward only to heaven.

    Stifled Voices Heidi Waleson 2011

  • I took a photo and slept on it (the event, idiomatically; not the photo, literally).

    Blue Screen of Death and the Spiders of Mayhem 2009

  • "Bach wrote very well for instruments, very idiomatically, but he transcribed all the time," says Mr. Tepfer.

    Improvised Variations Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

  • Yet the piece's jazz and blues roots were given equal attention, as they were in Gershwin's Concerto in F, where Eschenbach's expansive, seductively phrased treatment of the Adagio's sultry opening was both gorgeous as sheer sound and idiomatically spot-on.

    Performing arts reviews Post 2011

  • Though idiomatically set for voice, it is rhythmically square, tepidly orchestrated and lacks a distinctive musical profile.

    Sanitized 9/11 Heroics Heidi Waleson 2011

  • Andrew@401: Is "mended the fuse" idiomatically correct where you're from?

    Making Light: Open thread 137 2010

  • Is "mended the fuse" idiomatically correct where you're from?

    Making Light: Open thread 137 2010

  • For the heroine's despair comes from feeling not that she will never fall "under another influence," but, less passively (and less idiomatically), that she will never "vibrate" (as in resonate) to such an influence — in the full sense of sympathetic vibration.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • One of the adagios has the sole appearance in Beethoven's oeuvre of a harp, used quite idiomatically.

    Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010

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