What's the difference between luckily and speedily?

Luckily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
  • (2) Luckily for him, nobody chose to point out that this was the least he could have done to guarantee he wouldn’t have to sack himself if the electorate voted to leave.
  • (3) Luckily, it's the same with behaviour therapy, which has been proven to benefit some children.
  • (4) The poll didn't ask about consistency, but luckily few specific Lib Dem policies lodge in the public memory.
  • (5) Luckily, we had booked into a rather smart lodge rather than pitching up at a dodgy motel.
  • (6) Luckily we have great collections, a great programme so we do our best … we are on a hamster wheel.” Blavatnik will join philanthropic names at the V&A such as Weston (the Weston Cast Court), Sackler (the Sackler Centre for Arts Education) and Porter (the Porter Gallery, which houses temporary displays).
  • (7) "I think he was going to have a shot but luckily he put it in my path and I struck through it and it went in.
  • (8) Most people were concerned about how many people had been killed but luckily enough there was no game on at the time and it was the middle of the afternoon and it was a surreal experience.
  • (9) Luckily, “Google” is also a popular search, getting about 40% as many as “Facebook”; so 8.9m per day.
  • (10) High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history Read more Luckily, there is more than one door to the palace.
  • (11) Luckily, I have lots of people I can practise on, to say, ‘Do you understand that phrase?’ and if they don’t they say, ‘What does that mean, daddy?’ You have to put yourself in a child’s shoes.
  • (12) Luckily, no real ladies are involved in any of this – Fifa has long served as one of Earth’s leading cockocracies.
  • (13) Luckily my parents did not practise family planning and stop earlier,” he laughs.
  • (14) Occasionally he does, but it's not very often we see him, luckily for us and for him.
  • (15) Careers for the 21st century law student Read more Luckily, the skills gained from studying law can be applied to other careers.
  • (16) Luckily, Hall was sufficiently mobile to be rescued.
  • (17) Luckily for Arsenal the pass forward towards Ibrahimovic is heavy and bounces out of play.
  • (18) Luckily, many of Prop 187’s and SB 1070’s most ardent supporters are now either eternally vilified ( Governor Pete Wilson ), politically irrelevant ( Governor Jan Brewer ) or in massive legal problems ( Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ).
  • (19) Luckily the Cardinals will have rookie phenom Michael Wacha, who has yet to take a loss this postseason, on the mound tonight .
  • (20) When boarding the train we found that the space was occupied by people and luggage, luckily they moved without too many dirty looks.

Speedily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a speedy manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prematurely separated from home and family, from love and touch, they must speedily reinvent themselves as self-reliant pseudo-adults.
  • (2) All this should not cause time to be lost, and whenever intestinal occlusion is suspected all the necessary diagnostic procedures must at once be carried out and appropriate therapy must speedily be started so as to reduce the risk of mortality and morbidity for mother and fetus.
  • (3) Hague said the G7 ( the main western economic nations) were entirely capable of co-operating among themselves without Russia and would move speedily in that direction if this crisis could not be resolved.
  • (4) He designed new fronts in keeping with the original Georgian structures, and worked (often for free) with the planners to speedily obtain permission.
  • (5) Cabinet members speedily agreed to hefty cuts in 2010 and proved so pliable that the "star chamber", which hears appeals from ministers against the Treasury, never met once.
  • (6) Due to the high reproducibility of the photographic techniques, the method was speedily accepted for long-term investigations on lens transparency, some of which were sometimes performed over a period of several years.
  • (7) The procedure required the patient to pick up speedily seven coins of small denominations one after the other, name the value of each coin as it was picked up, add its value to that of the previous ones and obtain the cumulative total of the seven coins.
  • (8) The US embassy in Kabul speedily issued condolence statements in Pashtu, Dari and English, assuring the Afghan people that "the individual or individuals responsible for this act will be identified and brought to justice", but they are likely to do little to stop the spread of conspiracy theories implicating the Americans and their allies in a plot against the nation.
  • (9) "I hope that this information will enable the police to act speedily to stamp out these criminals who are putting the future of the food industry at risk."
  • (10) The field compares rather badly with the many success stories in recent years in which new hormones and peptides have been speedily isolated and purified.
  • (11) That the Orbit is part of that great shared endeavour of the Olympics gets it speedily from the starting blocks.
  • (12) TCE(free type) was speedily conjugated by the liver.
  • (13) The librarian is meeting his responsibility to the patient when he performs the duties of selecting materials, cataloging these materials speedily and thoroughly, and giving reference service to library users.
  • (14) But Brexit would also mean no access to the European arrest warrant , which has seen 5,000 people speedily extradited from Britain to Europe in the past five years and 675 suspects or convicted criminals to Britain to face trial or serve a prison sentence.
  • (15) Conversely, new SNP voters could exact their own price at the ballot box should Sturgeon fail to deliver speedily enough on a more radical agenda, along with the majority of no voters – and this includes SNP supporters – frustrated at a general election being turned into another vote on Scotland’s constitutional future.
  • (16) They are following an exodus of customers attracted by the phone app’s method of speedily connecting you with a driver nearby who will take you to your destination at a staggeringly cheap rate.
  • (17) Cut this away and at least a third of our population must vanish speedily from the face of the earth."
  • (18) Donors have suspended pledged aid worth $150m until Banda, who came to power in 2012 following the sudden death of president Bingu wa Mutharika, "cleans up the mess" of corruption and speedily prosecutes all suspects.
  • (19) Extinction, however, occurs more speedily in one-month-old infants than in four-month-old infants.
  • (20) "I think that this is an excellent decision made even better by the fact that it was taken so speedily," Fowler said.

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