smartly

English

Etymology

smart +‎ -ly

Adverb

smartly (not comparable)

1. In a smart manner.

   He was dressed smartly.

2. Quickly.
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     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

3. Intelligently.