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proverbially

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pro·ver·bi·al  (pr-vûrb-l)
adj.
1. Of the nature of a proverb.
2. Expressed in a proverb.
3. Widely referred to, as if the subject of a proverb; famous.

pro·verbi·al·ly adv.
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Adv.1.proverbially - in the manner of something that has become a byword; "this proverbially bitter plant, wormwood"
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proverbially [prəˈvɜːbɪəlɪ] ADVproverbialmente
proverbially
adv (lit) expressin Form eines Sprichworts; (fig)sprichwörtlich; the weather there is proverbially unreliabledas Wetter dort ist sprichwörtlich wechselhaft; prevention is proverbially better than curewie das Sprichwort sagt, Vorsicht ist besser als Nachsicht
proverbially [prəˈvɜːbɪəlɪ] advproverbialmente
proverbially [prəˈvɜːbɪəlɪ] advproverbialmente


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For while those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or forty-barrel-bulls, as they call them, are by far the most pugnacious of all Leviathans, and proverbially the most dangerous to encounter; excepting those wondrous grey-headed, grizzled whales, sometimes met, and these will fight you like grim fiends exasperated by a penal gout.
The two were inventors and proverbially poor business men, though they had amassed a fortune.
Captain Bonneville was suitably affected by this mark of friendship; but his experience in what is proverbially called "Indian giving," made him aware that a parting pledge was necessary on his own part, to prove that his friendship was reciprocated.
 
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