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preciously
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial preciously has 1 sense
- preciously(r = adv.all) precious - extremely; "there is precious little time left"
CIDE DICTIONARY
preciously, adv.
In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically. [1913 Webster]
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