correctly

From correct +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɛk(t)li/

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• Hyphenation: cor‧rect‧ly

correctly (comparative more correctly, superlative most correctly)

1. In a correct manner.

   Most people couldn't pronounce Daragh's name correctly, so he went by the name of "Dave" instead.

   • 2024 May 30, Aimee Ortiz and Alexandra E. Petri, “From 74th Place to Spelling Champion: One Boy’s Journey to Win the Scripps Bee”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Bruhat rattled off a head-spinning 29 correctly spelled words in 90 seconds, including heautophany, nachschläge and puszta.

• accurately, exactly, precisely; see also Thesaurus:exactly

• incorrectly

• politically correctly