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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



... Dickie answered honestly and straightforwardly. Only of course he did not tell about the magic, or say that in that magic world he and Lord Arden's children were friends and cousins. And all the time they were talking Lord Arden's eyes were fixed on his face, except when they wandered to Tinkler and the white ...
— Harding's luck • E. [Edith] Nesbit
... she entered a carriage again to be driven to the steamship wharf; when she stood upon the deck near the rail, and gazed, as she honestly believed, over the house tops of a city she would ...
— Princess Zara • Ross Beeckman
... came out there and asked me if I would be yours, you spoke so frankly and honestly to me about your first marriage. It had been so ...
— The Lady From The Sea • Henrik Ibsen
... settled, rich dress was almost universal in Europe among persons of any wealth or station. The dress of plain people also, such as yeomen and small farmers and work-people, was plentiful and substantial, and even peasants had good and ample clothing. Materials were strongly and honestly made, clothing was sewed by hand, and lasted long. The fashions did not change from year to year, and the rich or stout clothes of one generation were bequeathed by will and worn by a second and even a third and ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle
... pretty baby faces a clusterin' around her and some man's face like the sun a reflectin' back the light of her happy heart. But she can't sit up on the pinnacle of fame's pillow. I don't believe she can ever get up there, I don't. Honestly speakin', ...
— Samantha at Saratoga • Marietta Holley


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