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Adverb Means Completely Partly Approach Fraud Matter Price

word entirely
definition
adverb
Entirely means completely and not just partly .
...an entirely new approach.
Fraud is an entirely different matter.
Their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity.
The cost of living rose entirely because of rises in food and energy prices.
Entirely is also used to emphasize what you are saying .
I agree entirely.
Oh, the whole episode was entirely his fault.
People sometimes use the expression not entirely to reduce the force of a strong statement, especially a critical one.
They are not entirely happy with his criticism of the president.
We shall see that this is not entirely true.
She claimed the unemployment figures were not entirely unexpected.
This government is not entirely free of suspicion.
cefr-level B2

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