Nicely vs Unerringly - What's the difference?
nicely | unerringly | Synonyms |
(obsolete) Fastidiously; carefully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement.
*1926 , (Ford Madox Ford), A Man Could Stand Up—'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 580:
*:An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 59:
Pleasantly; satisfactorily.
Without making a mistake, perfectly, directly
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 25
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, title=Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa
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Nicely is a synonym of unerringly.
As adverbs the difference between nicely and unerringly
is that nicely is (obsolete) fastidiously; carefully while unerringly is without making a mistake, perfectly, directly.nicely
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].
- Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.
unerringly
English
Adverb
(-)- His sense of direction leads us unerringly every time.
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