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UK
/sˈuːtəbli/
]
[ US /ˈsutəbɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈsutəbɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
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 suitably In A Sentence
- One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
- Inside, concourses and shop units are suitably smartened up to indicate the centre's new aspirations.
- Like all literary feuds it began in a suitably rarefied atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
- It's a familiar and rather well-worn mechanic, but the sepia-toned graphical overlay is a stylish touch and the extravagant rag doll physics sends your victim rocketing through the air like a crazed acrobat, which is fun to behold and suitably reminiscent of a Peckinpah bloodbath. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
- Now China expects him to come up with something suitably spectacular for the Olympics ceremonies. Times, Sunday Times
- He went to classes smartly dressed in a shirt and tie, and upbraided his fellow pupils for not being suitably attired.
- Various objections might be made to motivational hedonism: that we are often motivated by things that do not in fact maximize our pleasure, such as motivation to step under a shower that one takes to be suitably warm but which is in fact scalding hot; that not every pleasure that our options for action make available to us motivates us; or that the very idea of maximum ˜pleasure over pain™ or Hedonism
- Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » A suitably brief guide to conciseness Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » A suitably brief guide to conciseness
- Thankfully, the four young leads give suitably heartfelt and believable performances, giving an otherwise schlocky teen soap opera the pleasing illusion of quality.
- This would include prescribed medication and examinations by suitably qualified professions e.g. doctors, physiotherapists etc.