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US
/ˈsɪŋɡjəɫɝɫi/
]
[ UK /sˈɪŋɡjʊləli/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪŋɡjʊləli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a singular manner or to a singular degree
Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone
How To Use singularly In A Sentence
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- Second, his academic experience at the University of Chicago makes him singularly suited to translate the arcana of policy into an accessible format.
- With the digital addition of a unicorn's horn, the heraldic beast conjoins a singularly aristocratic symbol of Christian purity and England's national enthusiasm for horses.
- The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.
- Scots must be singularly stupid if they are taken in by this sort of patronising cloud-cuckoo-land hogwash. Arise Nobel Laureate Salmond!
- The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.
- This was the first trial of our _sliding-gunter_ mainsail upon our singularly-constructed boat; and Bob and I were thrown into perfect raptures at the truly marvellous speed with which it propelled the craft along. For Treasure Bound
- Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so.
- Barber, the gentleman farmer and cheesemaker, is singularly privileged. Times, Sunday Times
- A single altar-shaped rock crowned the summit, from which the continuation of the ridge, right and left, fell away in a singularly graceful outline, the face of the mountain being precipitous with escarped cliffs. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.