doubly
IPA: dˈʌbɫi
adverb
- (usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.
- In two ways
- (obsolete) with duplicity
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Examples of "doubly" in Sentences
- They are doubly problematic.
- The change is doubly unfortunate.
- The margins are singly to doubly toothed.
- The conditions of slavery in Sudan are doubly edged.
- Hyprocrisy is a sin – doubly so when it organizes - X
- In the case of the Harold Lloyd template, it is doubly so.
- And that title doubly applies to my collection of clothing.
- Sorry for the confusion and doubly sorry for the apparent ineptitude.
- The normal policy of the times would therefore be doubly to ridicule Galloway.
- Armstrong is doubly constrained by the format of the series he is writing for.
- In the suspicious temper of the times this vacillating policy was doubly fatal.
- In the suspicious temper of the times, this vacillating policy was doubly fatal.
- But his lost country lived again doubly dear in his memory, and regret gave him more pity for men.
- To render the title doubly secure, Dauversière and Olier obtained deeds to the island from Lauson and from the Hundred
- By observing radiation even in doubly distilled water, he eliminated the possibility of minute impurities fluorescing in the liquids.
- I lately heard of a German named Knochea name doubly difficult to Americans, what with the kn and the chwho changed it boldly to Knox to avoid being called Nokky.
- Owing to the strong double refraction and the consequent wide separation of the two polarized rays of light traversing the crystal, an object viewed through a cleavage rhombohedron of Iceland-spar is seen double, hence the name doubly-refracting spar.
- I think she has a masculine air, and is a little forbidding at first: but when I saw her behaviour to two agreeable gentlewomen, her husband's nieces, whom, for that reason, she calls doubly hers, and heard their praises of her, I could imputer her very bulk to good humour; since we seldom see your sour peevish people plump.
- This impediment no longer stood in the way; early in his term, therefore, President Lincoln signed the bill authorizing the construction of the Union Pacific -- a name doubly significant, as marking the union of the East and the West and also recognizing the sentiment of loyalty or union that this great enterprise was intended to promote.
- If he'd just said "bands like Brand New and Fall Out Boy", you wouldn't even think of recommending Rites of Spring, so why do so just because he's used the word "emo", in inverted commas, and followed by the caveat "I've taken a slightly deconstructionalist view and decided that since all signifying words are subjective, and the two words of the thread title doubly so, it was was safer to use quotation marks"?