aptly

comparative more aptly · superlative most aptly

1. In an apt or suitable manner; fittingly; appropriately; suitably.

   an aptly named hotel

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   My friend, aptly nicknamed “Shorty”, was small but strong.

   The border-land where the white and black races meet in common debauch, the aptly-named black-and-tan saloon, has never been debatable ground from a moral stand-point.

   1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Color Line in New York”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156

   The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.

   2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247

   This was a war of choice. Even without the “Epstein Coalition” — as the Iranian media so aptly dubs their invaders — murdering 165 Iranian school girls on day one, “peace through strength” was never going to happen.

   2026 March 5, Michael West, “Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster”, in Asia Pacific Report, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2026