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Roundly vs Plumply - What's the difference?

roundly | plumply |

As adverbs the difference between roundly and plumply

is that roundly is circularly while plumply is without reserve; fully; roundly; plainly.

roundly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Circularly.
  • Utterly or thoroughly.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • * 1974 , Richard Garrett, General Gordon (page 203)
    • When, over in the east, General Valentine Baker led his force of four thousand irregulars against Osman Digna, he was roundly thrashed.

    plumply

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adverb

  • Without reserve; fully; roundly; plainly.

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