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Honestly   /ˈɑnəstli/  /ˈɑnəsli/   Listen
adverb
Honestly  adv.  
1.
Honorably; becomingly; decently. (Obs.)
2.
In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly.
To come honestly by.
(a)
To get honestly.
(b)
A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity.





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"Honestly" Quotes from Famous Books



... service as bowsprit. All the time we have had a fine, fair wind and a smooth sea; to-day at noon our run was 203 miles (if you please!), and we are within some 360 miles of Sydney. Probably there has never been a more gallant success; and I can say honestly it was well worked for. No flurry, no high words, no long faces; only hard work and honest thought; a pleasant, manly business to be present at. All the chances were we might have been six weeks - ay, or three months ...
— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson
... you a bit of advice or guidance that would help, Judy; but honestly I don't know how to do it. Fathers and uncles in the school stories always seem to know what to say. I do know that you're going to have a splendid time—I wish I were sixteen again and my first year at York before me." Aunt Nell looked reminiscent ...
— Judy of York Hill • Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett
... I could have slept twenty minutes yet," Carita wailed sleepily. "I can dress for a party in ten minutes. Yes, I can, honestly!" ...
— Blue Bonnet in Boston - or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's • Caroline E. Jacobs
... they had taken her from him. "And you can't expect me to sympathise with people or with an idea that has done this? It wouldn't be human, and I don't think you would like me any better if I did—now would you, Evelyn? Can you say that you would, honestly, hand upon your heart?—if a ...
— Sister Teresa • George Moore
... alacrity, and the one thought of getting Collinson away; "we'll go together, and we'll see that that pork barrel is filled!" He glowed quite honestly with this sudden idea of remembering Collinson through his good fortune. "Let's get on quickly, for we may find the fire between us on the outer trail." He hastily ...
— In a Hollow of the Hills • Bret Harte


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