Gingerly vs Vigilante - What's the difference?
gingerly | vigilante |
Gently; in a delicate or cautious manner.
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very careful or cautious.
* 1867 , (Rebecca Harding Davis), Waiting For The Verdict'', chapter 19 “The Valley of the Shadow”, published 1868 in ''The Galaxy magazine, volume 4,
* 1886 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Mayor of Casterbridge) , :
* 2012 , (w), Star Trek: The Next Generation — Cold Equations Book One: Persistence of Memory , chapter 28:
A person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction.
As an adverb gingerly
is gently; in a delicate or cautious manner.As an adjective gingerly
is very careful or cautious.As a noun vigilante is
a person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction.gingerly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He placed the glass jar gingerly on the concrete step.
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Adjective
(en adjective)page 223:
- But, ther’s somethin’ in the very look and voice of Jeems Strebling, even in his gingerly walk, that riles all the black drop in me.
- …penetrating cautiously into dark cellars, sallying forth with gingerly tread to the garden, now leaf-strewn by autumn winds…
- Several gingerly taps on her console fired clusters of modified probes into the maelstrom of the gas giant’s atmosphere.