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Consistently

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con·sis·tent  (kn-sstnt)
adj.
1. In agreement; compatible: The testimony was consistent with the known facts.
2. Being in agreement with itself; coherent and uniform: a consistent pattern of behavior.
3. Reliable; steady: demonstrated a consistent ability to impress the critics.
4. Mathematics Having at least one common solution, as of two or more equations or inequalities.
5. Holding true as a group; not contradictory: a consistent set of statements.
[Latin cnsistns, cnsistent-, present participle of cnsistere, to stand still; see consist.]
con·sistent·ly adv.
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Adv.1.consistently - in a systematic or consistent manner; "they systematically excluded women"
systematically
inconsistently - without showing consistency; "he acted inconsistently when he bought these stocks"


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The fourth point is consistency: for though the subject of the imitation, who suggested the type, be inconsistent, still he must be consistently inconsistent.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
He may have consistently broken them for fifty years, yet this year he will keep them.
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But, about three centuries afterwards, the Law decided that in all towns containing a population above ten thousand, the angle of a Pentagon was the smallest house-angle that could be allowed consistently with the public safety.
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