famously

famously
famously [fā′məs lē]
adv.
1. in a manner that is or that has become famous or notorious
2. in words that have become famous [as Patrick Henry famously saidGive me liberty, or give me death!]
3. excellently; very well [they got along famously]

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fa·mous·ly (fāʹməs-lē) adv.
1. In a way or to an extent that is well known: “his famously neurotic mannerisms [are] lampooned in the novels of Evelyn Waugh” (James Atlas).
2. With the result of becoming famous: “Frost had famously declared that poetry is what gets lost in translation” (David Lehman).
3. Excellently; splendidly:

We got along famously.

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