admirably

CEFRC1

/ˈæd.mə.ɹə.bli/

adverb

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Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.
He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports.
Near-synonym: laudably

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...yet more than all I had heard of it, now strongly informed me I was to expect that supreme pleasure which she had placed in the meeting of those parts so admirably fitted for each other.
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Gr...
Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.
1956 October, R. S. McNaught, “Locomotive Nicknames”, in Railway Magazine, pages 698-699

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From admirable + -ly.