Expectedly
/ɪkˈspɛktɪdli/ adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 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."
Example
More examples"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.