Definition of quickly

"quickly" in the adverb sense

1. quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace, in short order

with speed

"he works quickly"

"John got ready in short order"

2. promptly, quickly, quick

with little or no delay

"the rescue squad arrived promptly"

"come here, quick!"

3. cursorily, quickly

without taking pains

"he looked cursorily through the magazine"

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Quotations for quickly

Good and quickly seldom meet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Great pains quickly find ease. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He gives twice who gives quickly. [ Syrus ]

In a good house all is quickly ready. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I have a dog of Blenheim birth.
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running over the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again
Like lightning on he goes! [ Ruskin ]

A threefold cord is not quickly broken. [ Bible ]

Thy credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone;
Being got by many actions, lost by one. [ Randolph ]

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies. [ Burke ]

Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. [ William Shakespeare ]

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions. [ Bishop Porteous ]

The rose is fragrant, but it fades in time:
The violet sweet, but quickly past the prime:
White lilies hang their heads, and soon decay,
And white snow in minutes melts away. [ Dryden ]

A good judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They talk of short-lived pleasures - be it so -
Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. [ Bryant ]

With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master. [ Bovee ]

Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. [ Körner ]

Gratitude is a cross-road that leads quickly to love. [ T. Gautier ]

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc. 4 ]

The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. [ Ovid ]

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object! [ Shakespeare ]

'Tis a word that's quickly spoken. Which being restrained, a heart is broken. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! [ Hosea Ballou ]

'Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. [ Grotius ]

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone! [ Shakespeare ]

Heaven gives the grace needed for the moment; he who seizes it quickly becomes master of his fate. [ Raupach ]

Behold the morning! Rise up, O youth, and quickly fill thyself with this rosy wine sparkling from the crystal cup of the dawn! [ Omar Khayam ]

A coldness or an incivility from such as are above us makes us hate them, but a salute or a smile quickly reconciles us to them.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organises a huge instrumentality of means. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We should give as we receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. [ Seneca ]

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. [ Jeremy Collier ]

He that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does be outset his pleasure! [ South ]

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred. [ Edward Everett ]

Good dressing includes a suggestion of poetry. One nowhere more quickly detects sentiment than in dress. A well-dressed woman in a room should fill it with poetic sense, like the perfume of flowers. [ Miss Oakey ]

Were a whole nation to start upon a new career of education, with mature faculties and minds free from prepossession or prejudice, how much would be quickly abandoned that is now most stubbornly cherished! [ Chatfield ]

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. [ Addison ]

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]

quickly in Scrabble®

The word quickly is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 25

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters quickly:

QUICKLY
(155 = 105 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

quickly

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word quickly

QUICKLY
(155 = 105 + 50)
QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In quickly

QUICKLY
(155 = 105 + 50)
QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICK
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICK
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QUICKLY
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quickly in Words With Friends™

The word quickly is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 27

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters quickly:

QUICKLY
(182 = 147 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

quickly

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word quickly

QUICKLY
(182 = 147 + 35)
QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In quickly

QUICKLY
(182 = 147 + 35)
QUICKLY
(176 = 141 + 35)
QUICKLY
(164 = 129 + 35)
QUICKLY
(152 = 117 + 35)
QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICK
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICK
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QUICKLY
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QUICK
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QUICK
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QUICK
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QUICKLY
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LUCKY
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QUICK
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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QUICKLY
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YUCK
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LICK
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Words within the letters of quickly

2 letter words in quickly (1 word)

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4 letter words in quickly (4 words)

5 letter words in quickly (2 words)

7 letter words in quickly (1 word)

Words containing the sequence quickly

Words that start with quickly (1 word)

Words with quickly in them (1 word)

Words that end with quickly (1 word)

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Shorter words in quickly

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Longer words containing quickly

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