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smartly

adverb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/

adv

Etymology: From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.

  1. With a fine or fashionable appearance.

    “smartly dressed”

  2. 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 […]”

  3. Intelligently.