Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb To a conspicuous degree; notably.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a signal manner; conspicuously; eminently; memorably: as, their plot failed signally.

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

  • adverb In a signal manner; eminently.

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

  • adverb In a signal manner; conspicuously

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb as a signal
  • adverb in a signal manner

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Examples

  • It was threatened to be withdrawn on their disobedience or apostasy; and most signally is the execution of that threatening seen in the present sterility of Palestine.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Formerly, it was a common thing for most of the leading _party_-papers, especially in the large cities, to speak of the abolitionists in terms signally disrespectful and offensive.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • But Hawke, whose name signally represents the bold, swift, sure character of the man, understood the design, took the risk, avoided the danger, and clutched the prey.

    Laperouse Ernest Scott 1903

  • However, I don't think simply "signally" interest is a crime.

    What's the Connection?: Craig's Last List. Debra W. Haffner 2007

  • If the plays that made his name are not pure propaganda, they certainly exhorted audiences to have the courage of the convictions he himself would signally betray.

    Rocket to the Moon revived 2011

  • Modernization, while being the hardest of the three to define, is still clearly an expression of the need for Russia to reduce its dependency on natural resources, and move to an economy based more on knowledge and skills—something the country signally failed to do under Mr. Putin's management.

    Medvedev Puts Russia in a Choice Situation Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

  • The courts would surely have thrown out this order, realising the chilling effect it would have had on journalistic inquiry, which in the phone-hacking affair proved the only protection available when both police and politicians so signally failed.

    The new Met chief's U-turn is welcome – he had made a gross misjudgment | Jonathan Freedland 2011

  • Unlike, say, a bag of pot, a computer is something you generally expect to have and use for a while, and which may well require some kind of extended relationship with the manufacturer, which makes black market production signally unattractive.

    Only Nextel Could Go to China 2009

  • On the other hand it would bring more residential into the area and despite the design they might demand better urbanism (like another signally crosswalk at Denny and Minor for direct access to Cascade Park, or even eventually an I-5 lid).

    The Real Estate Development Twilight Zone « PubliCola 2010

  • We have a common ancestor that evolved intercellular signalling (for e.g. colonialism, mating), a function which was expanded in certain lineages, (esp. metazoans that used those signally functions to coordinate across specialized tissues).

    Biomolecular Networks 2009

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