fitly
Example Sentences
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Sir, no act of ours can fitly enforce their freedom that does not contemplate for them the security of the home.
From Slate • May 10, 2022
The word would fitly decorate one of those ladies who must have their hair in the hue of a blanched almond.
From Time Magazine Archive
This year's message might fitly have been described as the closing gun of the campaign of 1936.
From Time Magazine Archive
More than this cannot fitly be expected from me.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a young professor at Wilberforce College in Ohio, Du Bois had initially praised Washington’s 1895 speech, telegraphing his congratulations “upon your phenomenal success at Atlanta—it was a word fitly spoken.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
