Quickly and Speedy

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Quickly adverb - With great speed.

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Speedy and quickly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speedy" instead an adverb "Quickly".

Nearby Words: quick, quickness

Speedy adjective - Moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed.

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Quickly and speedy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Quickly" instead an adverb "Speedy".

Nearby Words: speed, speedily, speeding, speeded

However, it's pretty speedy for its size, accelerates to maximum velocity very quickly, can take a lot of punishment, and breaks through police barriers with the best of them.

Source: What a Piece of Junk
Later harnessed for speedy pastry delivery (though it's not explained if it caught on quickly, given that the destroyed part of track would need to be rebuilt).

Source: Western Animation / Hoodwinked
Speedy Spirits appear in the blink of an eye in certain dark rooms and vanish just as quickly; if Luigi doesn't catch them in one go, they'll vanish forever.

Source: Lost Forever

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