admirably

comparative more admirably · superlative most admirably

1. In a way worthy of admiration.

   Near-synonym: laudably

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   He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports.

   Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.

   ...yet more than all I had heard of it, now strongly informed me I was to expect that supreme pleasure which she had placed in the meeting of those parts so admirably fitted for each other.

   Fanny Hill

   1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

   I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing.

   2002 February 18, Molly Ivins, “Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2002

   Synonyms: laudably

2. To an admirable degree.

   They have made admirably great improvements in quality.

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   Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.

   1956 October, R. S. McNaught, “Locomotive Nicknames”, in Railway Magazine, pages 698-699