Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Remotely; at a distance.
- In entomology, sparsely; so that the component parts are distant from one another: as, distantly punctured or spinose.
- With reserve or haughtiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb At a distance; remotely; with reserve.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
distant manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb from or at a distance
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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Sort of ironically or sarcastically polite, or just plain distantly polite, depending on your mood. sergiogomez
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