Meanings
comparative more signally · superlative most signally
- In a signal manner; conspicuously.
In another direction Mr Nogg has found what I imagine has been signally lacking in his life hereto—amusement.
1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries2 more examples
She would have given anything to have kept her colour, but the more she tried to do so the more signally she failed.
1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 10Another reason why de Valera has always had such a persistently bad press in Britain is because he is so signally fails to fit their stage-Irish stereotype: rumbustious, fun-loving, hard drinking, colourful and larger than life – an image which the British could readily pin on Michael Collins, for example, during the Treaty negotiations but which never fitted the austere and pedantic de Valera.
2015 November 24, Ronan Fanning, “Ronan Fanning: Why is Éamon de Valera so unpopular on both sides of the Irish Sea?”, in The Irish Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin a signal manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian забележително
- забележително (zabeležitelno)conspicuously
Italian marcatamente
- marcatamenteconspicuously
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