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Loosely   /lˈusli/   Listen
Loosely

adverb
1.
In a relaxed manner; not rigid.  Synonym: slackly.
2.
In a loose manner.
3.
Without regard to specific details or exceptions.  Synonyms: broadly, broadly speaking, generally.  Antonym: narrowly.
4.
Knitted in a loose manner.



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"Loosely" Quotes from Famous Books



... au gratin, is to skin it, cut off the head, and take out the back-bone; and there are then two large pieces of fish. Season the fish, and prepare the sauce as before. Butter a tin sheet that will fit loosely into a large baking-pan. Lay the fish on this, and moisten well with the sauce. Cover thickly with bread crumbs, and cook twenty-five minutes in a rather quick oven. Then slip on a hot dish, and serve with tomato, Tartare or Hollandaise sauce poured ...
— Miss Parloa's New Cook Book • Maria Parloa
... emoluments by knavish tricks. They would talk for the mere purpose of protracting litigation, injure their clients by vexations and bootless delays, and do their work so that they might be fed for doing it again. Draughtsmen find their clerks wrote loosely and wordily, because they were paid by the folio. "A term," writes the quaint author of 'Saint Hillaries Teares,' in 1642, "so like a vacation; the prime court, the Chancery (wherein the clerks had wont to dash their clients ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
... with fingers loosely interlocked in her lap, holding a drooping rose. The splendid slenderness of her figure was enhanced by the veiling of delicate negligee, and the face under its night-dark profusion of hair looked out wistfully with a sad half-smile on something ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... large stone, his arms hanging listlessly over his knees, and his head sunk so low that his features could not be seen. Instead of the defiant scalp-lock drooping from his crown, his hair was long and luxuriant, and plentifully mixed with gray. It hung loosely over his shoulders, and in front of his face, and helped to give ...
— Adrift in the Wilds - or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys • Edward S. Ellis
... Crestwick behind him, and gripping the loosely-hanging arm of the body Batley was supporting, ...
— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss


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