freshly

comparative more freshly · superlative most freshly

1. Recently, newly.

   The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.

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   Florence, hardly glancing round her, lest she should remind him freshly of their last parting […] led him out to a coach that was waiting at the door, and carried him away.

   1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC

   Filter cards were prepared from freshly collected blood (EDTA blood, 2–6 h old) and from hemolyzed blood (EDTA blood, 2–4 days stored at -20°C).

   2015 July 6, “Diagnosis of Morquio Syndrome in Dried Blood Spots Based on a New MRM-MS Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

   He smelt freshly fried kachoris rescued from the wedding buffet.

   2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 54

2. uncommonIn a rude or impertinent manner.

   Synonyms: impolitely, rudely, uncivilly, unmannerly