smartly
/ˈsmɑːtli
/adverb
1In an attractively neat and stylish manner: he was dressed smartly in his suit the men were smartly groomed...
- A lean man, smartly dressed, wearing shades, hovers menacingly.
- In almost every shot, they wear their power and privilege as comfortably as their smartly tailored clothes.
- The two sisters are dressed in elegant designer clothes, and we first see their boyfriends in smartly tailored business suits.
1.1In a fashionable and upmarket style: the restaurant is smartly decorated the smartly furnished house...
- In the centre of the canvas, a smartly decorated airplane with its angular bands of colour provides a metaphorical bridge between the two societies.
- His photography is elegant and smartly framed, and the period detail looks right.
- The building is smartly renovated and almost filled with tenants paying market-rate prices for New York–style lofts.
2In a manner showing quick-witted intelligence or skill: a smartly conceived menu the action sequences are smartly executed...
- Instead of churning out a subpar film, they smartly walked away from the project.
- She smartly tapped Cukor to direct the screen version of <i>The Philadelphia Story</i>.
- Included here is the original 'tearful' ending sequence that was smartly axed in favor of the revised ending.
3In a quick or brisk manner: we marched smartly to the main assembly hall...
- It's about walking together—forward and back, side to side—one stepping smartly, the other lumbering anxiously.
- The romance scenes moved smartly, never lingering long enough to be physically painful.
- We see a high school clarinetist marching smartly up and down the football field in perfect cadence with the others.