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instinctively

Adverb

Meaning

In an instinctive manner; by force of instinct; by natural impulse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. George Orwell

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. Christopher Nolan

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. E. B. White

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone. Henry James

A healthy person instinctively loves life. Jewish Proverb

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