suitably

From suitable +‎ -ly.

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suitably (comparative more suitably, superlative most suitably)

1. In a suitable manner; with propriety.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

• (in a suitable manner): properly, duly, fitly, agreeably