lightly

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Compared to a lot of car reviews on Top Gear, Tesla got off lightly.

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Quick take

without good reason; "one cannot say such things lightly"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lightly gathered in one view.

adverb

without good reason; "one cannot say such things lightly"

adverb

with few burdens; "experienced travellers travel light"

adverb

with little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lightly.

adverb

without good reason; "one cannot say such things lightly"

adverb

with few burdens; "experienced travellers travel light"

adverb

with little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead"

adverb

indulging with temperance; "we eat lightly in the morning"

adverb

with indifference or without dejection; "he took it lightly"

adverb

in a small quantity or extent; "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"

adverb

to a slight degree; "her speech is only lightly accented"

Example sentences

Compared to a lot of car reviews on Top Gear, Tesla got off lightly.

That kind of decision is not made lightly nor is it made by any one person.

Would he have you do it if he knew it was crushing your soul?I don't use the phrase "crushing your soul" lightly.

Sure, it's a bug, and it's not to be taken lightly, but the howls of derision here are totally out of proportion.

Terms were very lightly massaged, for example, "so callous" would have counted simply as "callous".

Talking about tens of thousandths of an inch tolerances on a 10' diameter tube is not to be dismissed lightly.

I'm not saying that lightly, I worked for a dozen startups, a couple of which crashed hard in the most gut wrenchingly painful way you could imagine.

I've heard horror stories of students using the multiple-choice answer documents to make pictures by filling in the bubbles, or simply choosing to color in bubbles so lightly that they can't possibly be read.

My wife spent years being horrified at seeing her half-Taiwanese children going out lightly dressed in temperatures that were unimaginable to her when she was growing up, while I just smiled and said, "Our children are just reflecting their Norwegian ancestry.

At its current fairly fuzzy resolution, it's what I'd guess a traditional magazine evolves into when it hits the Internet: a loose confederation of lightly edited writers with their own individual reputations.