smartly

What it means

1. With a fine or fashionable appearance.

   smartly dressed

2. Quickly.

   He set smartly off towards the shops […]

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

   1 more example

   She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

   1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1

3. Intelligently.

In a sentence

smartly dressed

Where it comes from

1. Middle Englishsmertly
2. Englishsmartly

From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.