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English
Etymology
From small + -ly.
Adverb
smally (comparative more smally, superlative most smally)
- (rare) In a small way.
1890, HM Factory Inspectorate, Annual report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops:The name of Worstead, a village some ten miles distant from the city, was, indeed, as its name may testify, the birthplace of an important branch of the trade in England; now it is a smally populated, little known spot...
2007 October 28, Richard Ford, “The Noise Is Killing Me”, in New York Times:Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself.
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