Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sage manner; wisely; with just discernment and prudence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a sage manner; wisely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In the manner of a
sage , withwisdom ,wisely .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a wise manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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And for the record, I appreciate you using the term "sagely" in reference to me even if it was in jest!
Was Washington Irving gay? Ann Althouse 2007
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Remember that the American carmaker responded to the threat of smaller, cheaper, better, more economical foreign cars in the 1970s by taking a long, hard look at its fleet of behemoths, nodding sagely, and then adding spiffier "landau roofs."
Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt Gene Weingarten 2011
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Here I applied the sagely old nurse smile, and I looked right back into those watery green eyes.
Empty is the House of Death Athena G. Csuti 2011
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The old man nodded sagely when he heard the good word at Mass a week ago.
meg's christmas story prompt James Claffey 2011
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"I can always buy a ticket," she proffered, sagely.
Trailer trash 2011
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"For whether they be large or small, a dozen eggs is a dozen eggs," he observed sagely to himself; and a dozen small ones he found to weigh but a pound and a quarter.
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Chris, as for President Obama lying, the actions he promised are indeed, as you sagely suggest, still in progress and therefore don't qualify as lies.
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[I] n mooring this familiar character to the unique history of early-20th-century Hawaii, Brennert portrays the Aloha State's history as complicated and dynamic -- not simply a melting pot, but a Hawaiian-style "mixed plate" in which, as Jin sagely notes, "many different tastes share the plate, but none of them loses its individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine."
Honolulu: Summary and book reviews of Honolulu by Alan Brennert. 2009
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Joe Sixpack nods sagely again … theAmericanist says:
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A nation nods sagely; it's bamboozled us for years, too.
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