SUBTLY

adv.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
adv.

In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly. Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise. Milton.

2.
adv.

Nicely; delicately. In the nice bee what sense so subtly true. Pope. Subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but evading the analysis of my mind. Hawthorne.

3.
adv.

Deceitfully; delusively. [Obs.] Shak.

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