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adverb
Inexactly  adv.  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.





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... stage on which he plays, is broken at last by a capricious accident; while all alike, in their yearning for untasted enjoyment, are really discounting their days, grasping so hastily and accepting so inexactly the precious pieces. The Duke's quaint but excellent moralising at the beginning of the third act does but express, like the chorus of a Greek play, the spirit of the passing incidents. To him in Shakespeare's ...
— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater
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... these humble considerations, etc. The passage, like many which Emerson quotes, is rendered inexactly. The Prince says to Poins: "Indeed these humble considerations make me out of love with my greatness. What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name! or to know thy face to-morrow! or to take note how many pairs of silk stockings thou hast, that is, these and those that were thy peach-colored ...
— Essays • Ralph Waldo Emerson
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... spoken inexactly, Mr Tristram. I know the facts; I could get, but have not yet got, the ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
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