Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a straight line; not crookedly; directly: as, to run straightly on.
- An obsolete spelling of
straitly .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb A variant of
straitly . See 1ststraight . - adverb In a right line; not crookedly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
straight manner; without curve or bend. - adverb Without deviation;
directly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the inimitable M.F.K Fisher once wrote: "It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others."
Linda Novick O'Keefe: Obesity Epidemic: Spurring a Revolution Linda Novick O'Keefe 2012
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Graham looked quickly at her, and although she had asked the question of her husband, her head turned to the turn of his head, so that he found her eyes meeting his straightly and squarely in interrogation.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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M.F.K. Fischer explained that she wrote about food because "our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others" (The Gastronomical Me).
Prose and Potatoes's First Year Anniversary Sarah Lenz 2009
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If the reporting is accurate, then the policeman did act in a "stupid" manner and good for Obama to speak straightly.
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The clearness of it reminded him of her face, of her cleanly stencilled brows, her straightly chiselled nose, the very clearness of the gaze of her eyes, the firmly yet delicately moulded lips, and the throat, neither fragile nor robust, but -- but just right, he concluded, an adequate and beautiful pillar for so shapely a burden.
Chapter 17 2010
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M.F.K. Fischer explained that she wrote about food because "our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others" (The Gastronomical Me).
Archive 2009-03-01 Sarah Lenz 2009
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As the inimitable M.F.K Fisher once wrote: "It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others."
Linda Novick O'Keefe: Obesity Epidemic: Spurring a Revolution Linda Novick O'Keefe 2012
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As the inimitable M.F.K Fisher once wrote: "It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others."
Linda Novick O'Keefe: Obesity Epidemic: Spurring a Revolution Linda Novick O'Keefe 2012
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And I'm going to say things directly, straightly, bluntly and nobody in New Jersey is going to have to wonder where I am on an issue.
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M.F.K. Fischer explained that she wrote about food because "our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others" (The Gastronomical Me).
Archive 2008-03-01 Sarah Lenz 2008
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