Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an average or medial manner; in the mean between two extremes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
average manner - adverb With regard to an
average
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Examples
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That works better for me than both of them being kind of averagely smart, but Lex just having more money.
Guest Post: T on “How to Treat Superman” | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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She described her "ideal scenario" as one in which "Brown accepts that too much damage has been done" after doing the job of Prime Minister "averagely", before handing power to Alan Johnson.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Most common is the muscle-prodigy, a player who is a prodigy simply because he seems averagely, or even above-averagely, good at a very young age.
Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay 2011
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There is no doubt that an only averagely educated citizen of antiquity would have a more nuanced eye and ear for how language behaves than his modern counterpart.
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And Rinn, apart from acting a bit weird about his past, had seemed a perfectly, maybe even more than averagely, respectable guy.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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And what kind of book would this have been if he had kept all his emotional and philosophical character but was only an averagely talented architect?
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For the first time in a long time, educated Indians (and I am talking about the averagely well-educated not the brilliant scientists and engineers) are able to get good jobs at good wages.
Protesting Globalization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And while Privilege is billed as a fantasy, again, for me, it reads more like an averagely written period-piece.
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Never mind in Greenock, even to the averagely prosperous Londoner these boys can seem alien in their privileges.
A new sense of possibility shines on Scotland – but what will really come of it? | Ian Jack 2011
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It is averagely compelling I finished it, involves an average amount of concentration and, if such a thing makes sense, is averagely well written: excellent in its averageness!
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