rhetorically

Adverb

Meaning

in a rhetorical manner

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Synonyms

flowery exactly clearly ideally verbally eloquent linguistically eloquently explicitly audibly articulately rhetorical pretentiously faithfully stylistically
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Antonyms

indirectly quietly graphically modestly concretely dishonestly
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Examples

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. Clifford Geertz

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground? Andrea Dworkin

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in. Bruce Springsteen

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes. Gary Bauer

`What can be done?' he asked rhetorically Source: Internet

According to her, all the 40 stations on the DTT platform apart from GBC and Crystal TV have one channel and so "has that affected their ability to transmit their information to the world?" she asked rhetorically. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

rhetorical statement rhetorical subject rhetorical tricks rhetoricalness rhetoricate rhetorication