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Properly vs Gradely - What's the difference?

properly | gradely |

As adverbs the difference between properly and gradely

is that properly is in a proper manner while gradely is properly, really.

As an adjective gradely is

(northern england) of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable.

properly

English

Alternative forms

* proprely

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • in a proper manner
  • * {{quote-news
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  • (obsolete) individually; in one's own manner
    • Now herkenyth how I bar me properly . — Chaucer.

    gradely

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Northern England) of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable
  • * : "My work has meant travelling the world over, to great places and small, but home to me always means Rochdale and its gradely folk."
  • excellent
  • * 1881 , Elizabeth Sophia Watson, Crabtree Fold: A Tale of the Lancashire Moors , page 53:
    • Yo're well off to ha' Betsy Ogden comin' in; she's a gradely worker.
  • handsome, fair
  • * 1863 , , page 13:
    • This is a hard road for a gradely foot like that. Will ye up, lass, and ride behind me?
  • real, proper

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • properly, really

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