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aptly
[apt-lee]
adverb
in a manner that is suited to the purpose or occasion; appropriately.
Known for its distinctive fanned tail and energetic flying antics, the aptly named fantail is one of the most common native birds of New Zealand.
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- overaptly adverb
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of aptly1
Example Sentences
She ended her set by eating a bowl of mango sticky rice, aptly, during her song “Mango Sticky Rice.â€
One tune is a surprising almost-love-letter to a fixture that’s the bane of many Golden State warriors’ existence — and satirized aptly on the “Saturday Night Live†sketch “The Californiansâ€: The 405 Freeway.
To get the production off the ground, he formed a theater collective, aptly named the Forest of Arden.
Franklin Roosevelt aptly referred to it as “this ancient atrocity†in 1933, when he signed a textile industry code that outlawed the employment of children younger than 16 in sweatshops.
There is a soaring quality to much of the album, particularly the aptly named “Fly Away,†featuring Aja Monet.
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