Correctly and Wholly

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Correctly

Correctly adverb - In a manner suitable for the occasion or purpose.
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Wholly and correctly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wholly" instead an adverb "Correctly".
Nearby Words: correct, correction, correctness, corrected, corrective

Wholly

Wholly adverb - To a full extent or degree.
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Correctly and wholly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Correctly" instead an adverb "Wholly".

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  • Peggy correctly guesses that he's lying to protect Bobby, but wrongly believes that Bobby is wholly to blame and thus punishes him very harshly.
    Source: Right for the Wrong Reasons
  • Kipling punningly used both versions — correctly — in one of his poems: "Holy People, however it runs, Endeth in Wholly Slave." Similarly, the Discordians have "To diverse gods/Do mortals bow:/Holy cow/And Wholly Chao."
    Source: The Big List of Booboos and Blunders
  • Comic Strip / Calvin and Hobbes His dad guessed correctly that he was still at the tiger pit, but wound up running all the way there when the (not wholly unreasonable) thought entered his head that Calvin might be trying to get into the tiger pit.
    Source: Comic Strip / Calvin and Hobbes
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