Generally and Plainly

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Generally adverb - According to the usual course of things.

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Plainly and generally are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plainly" instead an adverb "Generally".

Plainly adverb - In an honest and direct manner.

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Generally and plainly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Generally" instead an adverb "Plainly".

Nearby Words: plain, plainness

Yet he's generally depicted as good-looking (if perhaps dressed more plainly than the French).

Source: Theatre / Henry V
So the designers of the Soviet Phobos space probe left testing routines in the flight computer's ROM — fair enough, everyone does the same, because removing them means retesting and recertifying the whole computer, which generally would've be plainly impossible without said routines.

Source: Darth Wiki / Idiot Programming
And they generally come across as physically (not just morally) monstrous, which sorta messes with the popular idea that "The Antichrist" will show up as a charismatic human-shaped leader, and that such an event is plainly predicted in Revelation.

Source: Misaimed Fandom / Myth And Religion

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