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Moderately   /mˈɑdərətli/   Listen
Moderately

adverb
1.
To a moderately sufficient extent or degree.  Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat.  "Pretty bad" , "Jolly decent of him" , "The shoes are priced reasonably" , "He is fairly clever with computers"
2.
With moderation; in a moderate manner.





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"Moderately" Quotes from Famous Books



... staining with various degrees of intensity, but in any case giving with triacid solution an extraordinarily deep dark-brown, and further a round simple nucleus often eccentrically situated, stained a moderately deep bluish-green, with however a distinct chromatin network. The smallest forms stand between the lymphocytes and the large mononuclear leucocytes, but approach the first named as a whole in their size and general appearance. According to Tuerk's investigations, these ...
— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich
... avoiding him. All ranks are equally sufferers, for he picks off rich and poor alike, the strong and weak, the brave man and the coward. Still, I believe that the best way to prevent his attacks from proving fatal is to live moderately but well—not to be afraid, and to avoid exposure to rain and fogs. It is wiser to soak the clothes in salt water than to allow them to be wet with fresh and to dry on the back. However, it is very certain that, if a man does not play tricks ...
— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston
... and was beside herself with joy all day, waiting impatiently for the evening in order to give the young man such splendid news. Eligi Brancaleone was but moderately flattered, as you will easily believe, by the fisherman's magnanimous intentions towards him; but like the finished seducer that he was, he appeared enchanted at them. Recollecting his character as a fantastical student and an out-at-elbows poet, he fell upon his ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - NISIDA--1825 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... lateral processes (see woodcut 14), which are plainly developed in all British wild rabbits, and still more plainly developed in the large lop-eared rabbits. In a half-wild rabbit from Sandon Park,[272] a haemal spine was moderately well developed on the under side of the twelfth dorsal vertebra, and I have seen this in no ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin
... Youth! beauty! novelty! They are badly wanted in this house. I am excessively old. Hesione is only moderately young. Her ...
— Heartbreak House • George Bernard Shaw


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