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Definition of "advisedly" []

  • With careful consideration; deliberately. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "advisedly" in a sentence
  • "Which is to say, the torch relay was conceived for the 1936 Games, and enthusiastically adopted by the PR Nazis for once I use the term advisedly of the Third Reich."
  • "But in this egalitarian—and I use the term advisedly—day and age, nobility tends to play down its pedigree, the major exception being British lords who weren't born to greatness but were knighted after they made a killing in convenience stores or sandwich shops, or Eastern Europeans hawking products such as high-end cold creams."
  • "To be frank, the finished toaster—and I use the term advisedly—isn't the most attractive device."