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UK
/fˈɪtɪŋli/
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[ US /ˈfɪtɪŋɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪtɪŋɫi/ ]
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 fittingly In A Sentence
- Last night, in an arena where Shea's name fittingly joins the retired numbers of Seaver, Stengel, Hodges and Jackie Robinson, baseball witnessed a return to the past. Michael Shapiro: Ebbets Field, Redux
- Twenty years later, the PCI now only a memory, Asor Rosa would compose a melancholy balance sheet of the Italian left, to which he and Tronti have remained in their own fashion faithful, while Cacciari today is an ornament of the right of the Democratic Party, combining - not unfittingly for an admirer of Wittgenstein - mysticism and technicism in a politics otherwise much like that of New Labour. London Review of Books
- This trilingual follow-up, fittingly, sounds like a dispatch from a faraway, enchanted land.
- The inspiration, fittingly enough, is fusilli pasta. Times, Sunday Times
- Perhaps fittingly, Germany's Culture Minister saw Riefenstahl off with a bit of silly Marxism: ‘Her career shows that… art is never unpolitical, and that form and content cannot be separated from one another.’
- The life of the autobiographer is fittingly tumultuous and disordered.
- The life of the autobiographer is fittingly tumultuous and disordered.
- Significantly but fittingly, that period of partition and decolonisation occupies only the last two chapters for Keay ventures far beyond the traditional anglicised view of the country and its people.
- The story begins—fittingly for this paragon of self-invention—with a name change.
- Ah, post number one – fittingly, comes from a conservative defender of dumb – unrepentant in the face of a world, a nation and economy that are a reeling from the damage done when a C-student is put in charge. Duncan: Smart Is Cooler Than Ever - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com