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Word entry · 5 letters

fitly

Best crossword clue

"In a suitable way"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɪtli/Part of speech adverbSorted filtyStarts with FEnds with Y1 clues
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Definitions

  1. in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances

Word origin

From fit + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • Meane-while it is a great comfort unto a Christian man, to see our mortall implements, and fading tooles, so fitly sorted to our holy and divine faith[…].
  • I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful […]
  • A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

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