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Accidentally

Accidentally \Ac`ci*den"tal*ly\, adv. In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accidentally

late 14c., "non-essentially," also "unnaturally," from accidental + -ly (2). Meaning "unintentionally" is recorded from 1580s; phrase accidentally on purpose is recorded from 1862.

Wiktionary
accidentally

adv. 1 In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; casually; fortuitously. 2 unintentionally.

WordNet
accidentally
  1. adv. without advance planning; "they met accidentally" [syn: by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly] [ant: intentionally]

  2. in an incidental manner; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models" [syn: incidentally, by chance]

  3. without intention; in an unintentional manner; "she hit him unintentionally" [syn: unintentionally] [ant: intentionally, intentionally]

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Usage examples of "accidentally".

But more evidence is necessary before we fully admit that the glands of this saxifrage can absorb, even with ample time allowed, animal matter from the minute insects which they occasionally and accidentally capture.

Turnbull put down his pill box before getting a glass of water, and in his attack of giddiness accidentally opened your box of aconitine pills, Mrs.

Just then, she remembered the spectacle she had witnessed in a chamber of Udolpho, and, by an odd kind of coincidence, the alarming words, that had accidentally met her eye in the MS.

The children of such persons are degenerate also, and as the class is numerous and fertile there is here a social problem which is not primarily a problem in alcohol, but is accidentally connected therewith simply because the proneness to alcoholism is a symptom of the degeneracy.

Amity Little for ransom from her loving father, and then accidentally discovered that Amity Little and Amos Klein were the same?

He had a fixt aversion to London, and to all public places, and had constantly some disaster to relate of every visit he had accidentally made to them.

Sometimes, it was when Vetch moved a little too quickly, once, when Baken accidentally pinched a fold of skin while harnessing him.

I only once ejaculated in a vagina -- that accidentally -- and made her douche immediately.

He was accidentally wounded in February, 1868, by an arrow which entered the back three inches to the right of the 5th lumbar vertebra, and emerged about two inches to the right of the ensiform cartilage.

Not until three days later, which was when a dinner-and-dance cruise accidentally found Johnny Be Good Gambones body floating in the Hudson River.

We rolled around without making much progress for a few seconds, and then I accidentally pushed his gonads into the space normally reserved for his pancreas.

If people trod upon him accidentally, which they often did, Grumps uttered a solitary heart-rending yell proportioned in intensity to the excruciating nature of the torture he endured, then instantly resumed his position and his fascinated stare.

Books of himself when under these little delusions, occasioned accidentally, as he would say, that it became a serious question with him whether his proud position was due to Topman and Gusher or his own great merits.

The valet told us that these manuscripts contained the history of the last Prussian war, and the king had been so annoyed by their accidentally getting burnt that he had resolved to have no more to do with the work.

The sky had gotten much lighter, and underneath my feet the hailstones were crunching, as if someone up there had accidentally overturned some kind of celestial ice cube tray.