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US
/ˈɔɹəɫi/
]
[ UK /ˈɔːɹəli/ ]
[ UK /ˈɔːɹəli/ ]
ADVERB
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by spoken rather than written means
these stories were transmitted by word of mouth -
(of drugs) through the mouth rather than through injection; by mouth
he was administered the drug orally
How To Use orally In A Sentence
- But in the eyes of most it was morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
- The healthy but lazy who claim incapacity benefit are just as morally bankrupt as those benefiting from offshore tax havens. Times, Sunday Times
- He presented with a 24 hour history of right-sided chest pain which seemed to be temporally related to a recent bout of coughing.
- It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
- You can be morally unimpeachable for entirely selfish reasons. Times, Sunday Times
- There is a moral crime of the highest order being committed, and somebody is morally responsible.
- All men have a moral conscience and want to be good, but often fail to avoid doing what is morally wrong. Dr T.P.Chia
- The whole lecture has a morally subversive ring, and the savour of antinomianism about it.
- He knows that his collaboration in both wartime and personal events is morally questionable, and acknowledges this.
- Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.