elegantly
B2
adv
Freq #35325
Meanings
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1
adv
in a gracefully elegant manner
the members of these groups do not express themselves as accurately or as elegantly as their critics do
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2
adv
Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
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3
adv
with elegance
Etymology
From elegant + -ly.