characteristically
IPA: kɛrʌktɝˈɪstɪkɫi
adverb
- In a usual or expected way; in characteristic manner.
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Examples of "characteristically" in Sentences
- They characteristically migrate with the seasons.
- Elizabeth readily acknowledged this dependence, albeit in characteristically pedantic fashion.
- Eugene Volokh moots the question (s) in characteristically thoughtful fashion over at the Volokh Conspiracy.
- Even if they turn out in characteristically low numbers, they will still add millions of new votes into the Democratic column.
- Matt Welch makes quite reasonable points about news media and the war, to which Instapundit responds in characteristically lame fashion.
- The panel laughed over Mike Huckabee's Sunday touting of his poll numbers among Republicans, which Douthat termed characteristically "charmingly passive-aggressive."
- Here he is, dressed up in characteristically flamboyant manner as a Russian general as he helped celebrate artist Sam Taylor-Wood's 40th birthday at a fancy dress party in the East End. Gallery:
- This self-parody neatly illustrates several of Richard Stern's failings as a writer: the antiquated rhetoric, the irrelevant allusions (to my race and to Brigid Brophy, her name characteristically misspelled), and, above all, the lack of matter, the absence of any arguable point.
- He led toward the back of the house, introducing Lanyard to a spacious apartment, a library uncommonly well furnished, rather more than comfortably yet without a trace of ostentation in its complete luxury, a warm room, a room intimately lived in, a room, in short, characteristically
- 'This offering doesn't pretend to subtlety at all, but the premise is so very intriguing, and so well-presented (in characteristically wry Pratchett fashion), that Johnny's cry for the essential humanity of all to be recognized, whether English, Iraqi or ScreeWee, loses none of its poignancy-or timeliness.'
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