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Answer for the clue "Without apparent effort ", 7 letters:
handily
Word definitions for handily in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handily \Hand"i*ly\ (-[i^]*l[y^]), adv. [See Handy .] In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently(chiefly U.S. usage)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"easily," 1610s, from handy + -ly (2). Earlier it meant "done by hand" (late 14c.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located" [syn: conveniently ] [ant: inconveniently ] with no difficulty; "she beat him handily" [syn: hands down ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Feinstein handily defeated Davis in the election. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It seemed I could argue and defend handily , and I always loved debating. ▪ Perhaps if it hadn't happened so handily by chance, he would have engineered ...
Usage examples of handily.
Combrit, already handily fixated for them, with a motivation that will make him loyal to what he considers the winning side.
I ought to go rushing madly to the metagalactic center to meet a doom that will find me just as handily in my own living room.
The superstrong polymer had a breaking point of several tons per square meter, a point which the rampaging cetaceans had handily exceeded.
Kingsley had used it with speed and ingenuity decades before, explaining gamma-ray bursters quite handily with a little imagination and detailed calculations.
Keff grinned ferociously and edged toward his laser epee, slung handily across the back of one of the crash couches.
Those swamps weren't exactly impenetrable—Latour knew that Jackson's Indian allies and many of his frontiersmen would manage in them quite handily.
Then I bought a coffee and a chocolate-glazed doughnut, and took them outside to one of the benches provided by the management, placed handily right beside the garbage bin.
That ought to fill four minutes handily, even in this hypercharged state.
All that mass around it would be more than adequate to shield it from the diminishing hail of impinging radiation, and the drive beam itself would handily ward off the interstellar hydrogen directly ahead.
One squad with repeating rifles will handily out-gun two or three squads armed with single-shot rifles.
The hidden bicycle thief and I engaged in a brief tug of war, which I handily won, suggesting that I was pitted against one or two rhesus monkeys and not against the much larger troop leader.
Thomas kept his spear's long shaft flicking in and out, lightly as a serpent's tongue, and still used it handily to parry whenever it seemed the sword might reach his face or bulky torso.
The one Cezer handily devoured without assistance did indeed taste like chicken.
He had uncached his old identities and his gun and hid them handily above ground.
That would put us in a position to take full advantage of the schooners' weatherliness to run past them into the wind and avoid contact handily.