Strictly
Strictly adverb - Without any relaxation of standards or precision.
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Synonyms for Strictly
Truly and strictly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Truly" instead an adverb "Strictly".
Nearby Words: strict, strictness
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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White and Grey Morality: there is, strictly speaking, only one person who can truly be defined as gratuitously evil in the storyline, and he isn't a crucial part of the plot - indeed, he only gets a few lines.
Source: Video Game / Technobabylon -
While Scott and Fran dance together several times during the course of Strictly Ballroom, their feelings for each other truly start to emerge when they dance to Doris Day's "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps".
Source: Dance of Romance - However, the speech was apparently powerful enough to get Galileo off, and to convince the Pope that Mazzare was truly a priest of the Catholic church before promoting him to a cardinal, as the Pope had already decided that Galileo was not strictly a heretic.
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