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Handily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
  • (2) In fairness, despite being outshot handily by Sporting KC, New York did score three well-finished goals that will do a lot to rid the hold their Eastern rivals have had over them in recent versions of this fixture (New York needed an own goal to get on the scoresheet in their last five encounters with SKC), and they can now point to scoring four, four and three in the games against Shield rivals Montreal, RSL and now Sporting in three of their last four games, so they've hardly taken the easy route to the summit.
  • (3) Appendino’s surprise victory in June, in which she handily defeated the incumbent Democrat Piero Fassino, has made the 31-year-old the darling of M5S.
  • (4) Johnson's riposte has been to start a rerun of the whole process , scheduling it to end handily close to an expected change of government and surely heartened by shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's indication that he, unlike Bradshaw, wouldn't prevent Johnson from getting his way.
  • (5) Romney won handily in all three of Tuesday's contests.
  • (6) Every time I see Lindsey Graham spew hate during interviews I ask why the media never questions how I single handily [sic] destroyed his hapless run for president.
  • (7) Though SKC handily beat the Reds 2-1 when they last met, in late July at BMO Field, Peter Vermes’ team didn’t look their best against the Whitecaps in a 2-0 defeat last weekend.
  • (8) Michael Aston says: "Gotta feeling Ravens will win handily, not convinced San Fran have the mettle for this type of game against a vicious, tireless D and Flaco has been stellar lately.
  • (9) And it can be solved by adult children looking after their parents, with "the reverence and respect" of their Asian counterparts (who also, handily enough, make do without all that welfare-state padding).
  • (10) South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham was also sent back to the Senate, having handily defeated his seat for a third term.
  • (11) The curve is his calling card, but he also collects and publishes a vast trove of economic data on state revenues and taxes that seems to – handily – point to one conclusion: taxes bad, tax cuts good.
  • (12) Honestly, I don’t think that he can read.” The first election-day ballots were cast in rural New Hampshire, where Clinton beat Donald Trump handily with a 4-2 win in the township of Dixville Notch.
  • (13) Kone holds the ball up well, shielding it so McArthur can burst on to it as the City defence handily opens up for him.
  • (14) Full of scientific lunacy and wild action, this book spawned a slew of sequels chronicling the exploits of group Capt Timothy "Tiger" Clinton RAF (retired), his son Rex, Prof Lucias Brane and his butler Judkins in the good ship Spacemaster (which handily runs on the cosmic rays all around us – which certainly saves on fuel bills).
  • (15) He will move on to a perhaps similarly straightforward examination of his first‑week form against the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, who defeated Kyle Edmund handily on Court 2, while Ward is left to contemplate what will probably be his only match on Centre Court against the best player in the world.
  • (16) The world might be a much better place if most obstacles could be overcome this handily.
  • (17) It also suggests that the 1928-set film will "handily corner the upscale adult demo for the remainder of summer, continuing the Woodman’s late-career hot streak".
  • (18) As for social conservative activist and commentator Bryan Fischer, Romney would be winning handily if he just was running on banning gay marriage.
  • (19) "Indeed it exists," writes Claudio Kristeller, who handily sends in this link (scroll down).
  • (20) Selling e-cigarettes also allows the tobacco companies access to the politicians and public health bodies who are currently debating how the vaping market should be regulated, Gilmore points out – handily circumventing Article 5.3 of the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control , which effectively bars the industry from so much as talking to governments about public health policy in relation to tobacco.

Hardily


Definition:

  • (adv.) Same as Hardly.
  • (adv.) Boldly; stoutly; resolutely.

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