[
UK
/djˈuːli/
]
[ US /ˈduɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈduɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances
If you don't behave properly, you'll have to leave!
he was appropriately dressed
I met the junior senator from Illinois and I was duly impressed
How To Use duly In A Sentence
- Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. Horace
- I duly surrendered my little device, only to feel a sudden pang of panic on my way back to my seat. Times, Sunday Times
- It suggests that the existing regime contains aspects which unduly deter investment.
- Her mother's opinions on how babies should be cared for were freely given and duly ignored.
- Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain. The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct
- The principle thus given is of great importance and ought not, in my opinion, to be unduly fettered or restricted.
- Every four years, our brave lads and lasses tend to venture to foreign slopes with faint expectations, which will be duly fulfilled, as they wind up racing to a plucky 32nd in the giant slalom or 29th in the luge.
- However that is all idle speculation now as I have been duly called and plans have been duly made.
- Having been duly warned that I would get nowhere with my application, I went right ahead and applied anyway.
- The great and good were planted to ask rather tedious questions about other topics, which they duly did. Times, Sunday Times