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US
/ˈpɝfəkɫi, ˈpɝfəktɫi/
]
[ UK /pˈɜːfɛktlˌi/ ]
[ UK /pˈɜːfɛktlˌi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a perfect or faultless way
She performed perfectly on the balance beam
spoke English perfectly
solved the problem perfectly -
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
an absolutely magnificent painting
a perfectly idiotic idea
was dead tired
you're perfectly right
you can be dead sure of my innocence
dead right
utterly miserable
How To Use perfectly In A Sentence
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- I'm still feeling a bit cranially sprained, mind you, but the cat seems perfectly happy to be spending a snow day on the couch with me, watching S3 of Mission: Impossible. The Snowpocalypse Continues
- -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
- This dilemma perfectly sums up the impasse in all republican-loyalist negotiations.
- You can get a perfectly reliable car for less than 1,000. Times, Sunday Times
- Tennis or no tennis, we thought it was a perfectly enjoyable playdate. Times, Sunday Times
- Adele brushes her perfectly manicured fingertips atop the cold, smooth metal of the letter opener.
- Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
- Have you failed to hear a word he's said since he swept you off your perfectly pedicured feet and into the nearest watering hole?
- Largely he was happy in his perfectly toned sepia world. Times, Sunday Times