What's the difference between lengthily and lengthy?
Lengthily
Definition:
(adv.) In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the total independence route – pace Leveson – isn’t working too brilliantly either as that independent panel ponders lengthily and expensively whether there’s any regulator worth approving.
(2) There is no means of knowing how strenuously or lengthily he raised the issues, and Cameron refused to call for the writer's release in public.
(3) This was not surprising because, although Rendell loved to create complex and confusing plots – perfect for a lengthily successful series on commercial TV – she was deeply serious about human motivation and behaviour.
(4) A suite of primarily thermal egg-care behaviors, elicited when nests are exposed to light and view, progress from mere initial curiosity, inspection, and manipulation of fostered eggs by nonbreeding parents, to more extensive manipulation and episodic concealment of a pair's own eggs by crouching over them, to crouching lengthily over eggs with some incubation but nighttime abandonment, to continuous 24-hour incubation.
(5) He chaired the human rights group Liberty for three years, and represented figures including the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan , offering some of the ammunition for those seeking today to associate him with extremism – which he has repeatedly and lengthily refuted .
Lengthy
Definition:
(superl.) Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(2) The success in these two infertile patients who had already undergone lengthy psychotherapy is promising.
(3) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(4) Lengthy digestions with both proteases produced fragments of the receptor which appeared to be resistant to further proteolysis.
(5) These findings indicate that injured retinal ganglion cells in the adult rat are not only able to regrow lengthy axons, but may also form synapses in the SC.
(6) He Peirong has been at the forefront of a bold and innovative campaign by Chinese activists to free Chen and his family from their lengthy captivity.
(7) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
(8) These men then handed him over to a team of FBI interrogators, who took a lengthy statement.
(9) The stitcher surgical treatment of the lacerations associated with gastrostomy and lengthy parenteral nutrition did not prevent the recurrence of the esophagus-pleural fistula, and an esophagectomy plus cervical esophagostomy was required.
(10) When asked whether he was encouraged that Liverpool’s players were still clearly playing for their manager he issued an impassioned defence of his reign, but also warned the club faced a lengthy rebuilding job, “whether that is with me or someone else in the job”.
(11) Implemented on a pocket calculator, this approach does not involve complex mathematics or lengthy computations and allows the clinician to obtain a continuous prediction of the plasma anesthetic concentration during the course of the anesthetic from iv bolus or continuous infusion of anesthetic drugs.
(12) As a central feature of every ceremony, Nepali shamans (jhãkris) publicly recite lengthy oral texts, whose meticulous memorization constitutes the core of shamanic training.
(13) US district judge Anita Brody has asked for more financial details from the parties, a week after players' lawyers filed a lengthy payout plan.
(14) Fresh evidence of Independent journalist Johann Hari's habit of alleged plagiarism has emerged from a lengthy interview with Afghan women's rights activist Malalai Joya in July 2009.
(15) Although this drug does not produce significant side effects, it requires a lengthy period of treatment (15-20 days).
(16) I consider that lengthy delays in publishing reports risk reducing the effectiveness of independent inspection, which depends to a large extent on timely publication of findings, and it is contributing to a sense that the independence of my role is being compromised.” Vine disclosed in his letter that he was so perturbed by the proposals that he sought a legal opinion.
(17) Bill Clinton says Hillary would be 'great president' despite 'this email thing' Read more With her poll numbers continuing to plummet, Clinton subjected herself to a lengthy interview on NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday.
(18) Simmering resentment towards the US presence on Okinawa exploded into anger in 1995 after three servicemen abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl , a crime that prompted lengthy negotiations on reducing the country's military footprint.
(19) The next lesson to learn from last summer was the charge that any challenge to replace a prime minister took a prohibitively lengthy amount of time.
(20) The automatic cardioverter-defibrillator lead system is implanted by a thoracotomy procedure that may result in atelectasis, pleural effusion, cardiac tamponade and lengthy convalescence.