Dead
Dead adverb - To a full extent or degree.
Usage example: I'm dead certain that's the one I want
Nearby Word: deadly
Partly
Partly adverb - In some measure or degree.
Usage example: you're only partly right
Both words in one sentence
- Instead, you find her dead and partly eaten by the big bad, who is also her nephew.
- But due partly to being the pawn of Luck, and partly to his own self-defeating cowardice, he always ends up in the middle of some gigantic disaster surrounded by people who want him dead.
Source: Butt Monkey / Literature - The real Tales of Destiny 2, both in its PS2 and PSP incarnations, also never came over, partly due to sales of the two previous games, and partly because it was in 2D and Namco was dead set against releasing 2D Tales games in North America.
Source: No Export For You / Tales Series
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