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strictly speaking

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Adv.1.strictly speaking - in actual fact; "properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"
properly speaking, to be precise


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* Strictly speaking, the pronunciation of all words such as Liang, Kiang, etc.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
More strictly speaking, I had noticed him when, on a previous occasion, he had come to play cards here, and I had followed him home.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
That his uncle should arrive to treat with me of these things was a solution that, strictly speaking, I ought now to have desired to bring on; but I could so little face the ugliness and the pain of it that I simply procrastinated and lived from hand to mouth.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
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