thusly
pronunciation
How to pronounce thusly in British English:
UK ['ðʌslɪ]
How to pronounce thusly in American English:
US ['ðʌsli]
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- Adverb:
- in the way indicated
Word Origin
- thusly (adv.)
- 1865 (in an Artemus Ward dialect humor piece), from thus + -ly (2). A double adverb. Perhaps originally a humorous or mocking over-correction of thus; it has gained some currency but earns frowns for the user.
Example
- 1. Would jesus do it thusly ?
- 2. Valve seems to have recognized her talent and employed her thusly .
- 3. It is not necessarily a problem if you would call it thusly .
- 4. From all these music activities , he has made many good friends and thusly enriched his college life .
- 5. He disposes thusly ( albeit unconvincingly ) of both the intolerance faced by jews before the rise of capitalism and the early twentieth-century discrimination against oriental people in california , which , inconveniently , was instigated by workers .