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Competently

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com·pe·tent  (kmp-tnt)
adj.
1. Properly or sufficiently qualified; capable: a competent typist.
2. Adequate for the purpose: a competent performance.
3. Law Legally qualified or fit to perform an act.
[Middle English, adequate, from Old French, from Latin competns, competent-, present participle of competere, to be suitable; see compete.]
compe·tent·ly adv.
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Adv.1.Competentlycompetently - with competence; in a competent capable manner; "they worked competently"
ably, aptly, capably
displaying incompetence, incompetently - in an incompetent manner; "he did the job rather incompetently"
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Were the interests and affairs of each individual State perfectly simple and uniform, a knowledge of them in one part would involve a knowledge of them in every other, and the whole State might be competently represented by a single member taken from any part of it.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
She did all that she had to do very competently, but seemed to feel no need of conversation; yet there was nothing unsociable in her.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
One is quite justified in inferring that whatever one of these laws or customs was lacking in that remote time, its place was competently filled by a worse one.
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