Roughly and Strictly

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Roughly adverb - Close to but not exactly.

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Strictly and roughly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Strictly" instead the word "Roughly" as an adverb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: rough, roughage

Strictly adverb - Without any relaxation of standards or precision.

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Roughly and strictly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Roughly" instead the word "Strictly" as an adverb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: strict, strictness

Orthodox Marxism: A collection of Marxist movements dating from the Second International (roughly the turn of the twentieth century) that opted for a strictly "by-the-book" approach to communism.

Source: Useful Notes / Political Ideologies
Saving filler stories strictly for promotion of other things (such as movies) and keeping them short, the anime instead is taking the one-chapter-one-episode approach, sometimes resorting to stretching a chapter into two episodes if they get too close, keeping roughly 10 to 12 months behind.

Source: Overtook the Manga
There is a notable exception with a certain robot designed to look roughly humanoid, even though a simple positronic computer could have been used, strictly to try and get it on Earth and weaken the whole Frankenstein Complex.

Source: Ridiculously Human Robots / Literature

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