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featly

[ feet-lee ]

adverb

  1. suitably; appropriately.
  2. skillfully; nimbly.
  3. neatly; elegantly.


adjective

  1. graceful; elegant.

featly

/ ˈھːٱɪ /

adverb

  1. neatly
  2. fitly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڱ𲹳ٱԱ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ڱ𲹳··Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of featly1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English fetly; feat 2, -ly ( def 3 )
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Charlotte, eavesdropping while pretending to read a book — though in actuality staring at a photo of someone named LaFayette C. Baker, whose first name’s letters, she notes, can be arranged to make featly, fettle and latte — listens as Bridget describes her to other girls: “She’s like a parasite, I swear. I feel bad saying it, but it’s true.”

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The stone knocked Merlyn’s hat off as clean as a whistle, and the old gentleman chased him featly down the stairs, waving his wand of lignum vitae.

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Sixty pounds was considered a good weight for the arms used on the pel-quintain—so that, when he did come at length to the usual weapons, he would wield them featly.

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The point is that conscripted featly to national symbols undermines the quixotic myth of the dispassionate sporting event. 

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The Fearless slipped through the long swells as swiftly as a water sprite, “footing it featly” on her road to Hawaii, the Paradise of the Pacific.

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