smartly
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/
adv
Etymology: From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.
- With a fine or fashionable appearance.
“smartly dressed”
- Quickly.
“She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.”
“He set smartly off towards the shops […]”
- Intelligently.