Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unmistakable manner; so as not to be mistaken. Also
unmistakeably .
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- adverb In an
unmistakable manner;unquestionably .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a signal manner
- adverb without possibility of mistake
Etymologies
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Examples
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What we have here, unmistakably, is unequivocal, opinionated judgment, also this: "The Friends of Meager Fortune (2006) is one of the greatest of all Canadian novels," "drawing a world that contains every quality ever imagined in mud and God," rooting humour in illogical thinking, and bursting with joy emerging from tragedy not in spite of it.
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Feminists doing this — slandering a woman, and doing so in unmistakably sexist terms.
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Feminists doing this — slandering a woman, and doing so in unmistakably sexist terms.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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What we have here, unmistakably, is unequivocal, opinionated judgment, also this: "The Friends of Meager Fortune (2006) is one of the greatest of all Canadian novels," "drawing a world that contains every quality ever imagined in mud and God," rooting humour in illogical thinking, and bursting with joy emerging from tragedy not in spite of it.
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It is, in short, unmistakably different from what happens when Missouri plays Bowling Green.
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Those born without a tag unmistakably ticketing them and their positions in the world were perforce ticketed.
The Fighting Chance 1899
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The breath, for that matter, was more than anything else, the look in his daughter's eyes -- the look with which he SAW her take in exactly what had occurred in her absence: Mrs. Rance's pursuit of him to this remote locality, the spirit and the very form, perfectly characteristic, of his acceptance of the complication -- the seal set, in short, unmistakably, on one of Maggie's anxieties.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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The breath, for that matter, was more than anything else, the look in his daughter's eyes -- the look with which he SAW her take in exactly what had occurred in her absence: Mrs. Rance's pursuit of him to this remote locality, the spirit and the very form, perfectly characteristic, of his acceptance of the complication -- the seal set, in short, unmistakably, on one of Maggie's anxieties.
The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879
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The breath, for that matter, was more than anything else, the look in his daughter's eyes -- the look with which he SAW her take in exactly what had occurred in her absence: Mrs. Rance's pursuit of him to this remote locality, the spirit and the very form, perfectly characteristic, of his acceptance of the complication -- the seal set, in short, unmistakably, on one of Maggie's anxieties.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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The breath, for that matter, was more than anything else, the look in his daughter's eyes -- the look with which he SAW her take in exactly what had occurred in her absence: Mrs. Rance's pursuit of him to this remote locality, the spirit and the very form, perfectly characteristic, of his acceptance of the complication -- the seal set, in short, unmistakably, on one of Maggie's anxieties.
The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879
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