INWARDLY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

inwardly

adverb

Definition of inwardly

as in secretly

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Recent Examples of inwardly Yet inwardly, psychologically, something new awoke inside Caldwell. — Namir Khaliq, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 Now, others rooting for a crash weren’t as inwardly focused. — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026 Charleigh inwardly winced and froze in place, hand still on the knob. — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026 Regina turns her disdain outwardly, planning her escape, while Birde directs hers inwardly, seeing no way out. — Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for inwardly

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In 2024, Ojukwu was secretly detained in Lagos and later found in Abuja after being missing for several days over the same report.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2026
That gave him the technical know-how and lab access to secretly build his dead wife a synthezoid body.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of secretly

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As the days until payment is due tick grimly by, Irwin and Hester grow increasingly fretful and angry, and their widening divisions wrench the family apart, to intimately catastrophic effect.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
According to the findings, homes are most exposed to severe storms in Louisiana, a state intimately familiar with the damage extreme weather can unleash following Hurricane Katrina.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of intimately

Adverb

One doctor pulled Matveeva aside to speak with her privately.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Speaking privately to those in the Spanish production community, the jury is still out whether his legacy of hits such as Sîrat, La Peste, La Mesías and currently smash La Bola Negra is being honored.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of privately

Adverb

This isn’t a grabby, attention seeker of a film, but a quiet, watchful sort of movie that whispers its secrets sotto voce.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
The first and rarest category involved sotto voce confessions of personal tree-felling or maiming episodes.

— Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025

Definition of sotto voce

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