• Smartly

    Origin

    smart + -ly

    Full definition of smartly

    Adverb

    smartly

    1. In a smart manner.
      He was dressed smartly.
    2. Quickly.
      • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody Chapter 2, She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
    3. Intelligently.
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