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Perfectly

adverb

Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers. Synonyms: absolutely, dead, utterly. "A perfectly idiotic idea" , "You're perfectly right" , "Utterly miserable" , "You can be dead sure of my innocence" , "Was dead tired" , "Dead right"

In a perfect or faultless way. "Spoke English perfectly" , "Solved the problem perfectly"

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"Perfectly" Quotes from Famous Books

... down the staircase with murder in his eyes. He returned, in a moment, with a sealed packet, which was perfectly dry. Ned broke the seal and glanced ...

— Boy Scouts in a Submarine • G. Harvey Ralphson

... kinds of good little dots about her chin, that melted into one another when she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw in any little creature's head. Altogether she was what you would have called provoking, you know; but satisfactory, too. Oh, perfectly satisfactory. ...

— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various

... separates and distinguishes poetry is more particularly the ornament of verse; it is this which gives it its character, and is an essential, without which it cannot exist. Custom has appropriated different metre to different kinds of composition, in which the world is not perfectly agreed. In England the dispute is not yet settled which is to be preferred, rhyme or blank verse. But however we disagree about what these metrical ornaments shall be, that some metre is essentially necessary is ...

— Seven Discourses on Art • Joshua Reynolds

... best standing, it became me to give them an answer. This I could not do, without first consulting my master. I did so, and after giving the matter a careful consideration, he thought I had better go and see those gentlemen—he was perfectly willing to leave the ...

— A Narrative of The Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man. - Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four • Noah Davis

... "Perfectly," answered Mr. Franklin. "That was the last morsel of the door to be finished. We wanted to get it done, on Wednesday last—and I myself completed it by three in the afternoon, or ...

— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins

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