Expectedly

//ɪkˈspɛktɪdli// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an expected way; as expected; predictably.

    "More expectedly (and successfully), the Royal Shakespeare Company offers up a “Richard III” that speaks to contemporary fears of the hatreds that breed fascism, with the eponymous crookback played (by the rising young actor Jonathan Slinger) as a festering skinhead who addresses the audience with the complicity of a caveman comic."

Synonyms

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hopefullyvoluntarily

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"More expectedly (and successfully), the Royal Shakespeare Company offers up a “Richard III” that speaks to contemporary fears of the hatreds that breed fascism, with the eponymous crookback played (by the rising young actor Jonathan Slinger) as a festering skinhead who addresses the audience with the complicity of a caveman comic."

Etymology

From expected + -ly.

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