duly or dully

To do something “dully” is to do it in a dull manner. Too often people use this word when they mean “duly,” which means “properly.” Something duly done is done properly; something done dully is just a bore.

Facebook Twitter Google +

• grill vs grille
• dateline vs deadline
• epic vs epoch
• absorbtion vs absorption
• in tact vs intact
• all for not vs all for naught
• greatful vs grateful
• basicly vs basically
• as less as possible vs as little as possible
• tragedy vs travesty

Definitions

---

• r  at the proper time
  she was duly apprised of the raise

---

• r  without liveliness
  she nodded her head dully
• r  without luster or shine
  the light shone dully through the haze
  unpolished buttons glinted dully

News & Articles

---

• Chapel Down Group plc UK Regulatory Announcement: Result of AGM
  LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--14 June 2013 Chapel Down Group Plc (`CDG' or `the Company') EPIC: CDG Result of AGM Chapel Down Group Plc announces that at the Company’s AGM held at 11.00 am today, all resolutions were duly passed. The Directors of the Issuer accept responsibility for this announcement. --ENDS-- Enquires: CHAPEL DOWN GROUPFrazer Thompson+44 1580 763 033Richard Woodhouse+44 1580 763 033 ...
  June 14, 2013 - Business Wire
• KBR Awarded Contract for EPCm Services at the Sasol Synfuels Complex in Secunda, South Africa
  KBR today announced that it has been awarded a contract by Sasol, duly represented by Sasol Technology Ltd, for the provision of engineering, procurement and cons
  June 13, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• KBR Awarded Contract for EPCm Services at the Sasol Synfuels Complex in Secunda, South Africa
  KBR today announced that it has been awarded a contract by Sasol, duly represented by Sasol Technology Ltd, for the provision of engineering, procurement and cons
  June 13, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

---

• Adams, Dully earn top local honors
  Matt Adams, who golfs out of The Meadow at Peabody, and Kernwood Country Club head pro Frank Dully were the top local finishers as the 104th Massachusetts Open golf championship concluded yesterday after three days of play at Woodland Country Club in
  June 14, 2013 - The Salem News
• Travel To Go Complaints Department Talks World's Most Colorful Destinations to Visit in 2013
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- When people take vacations, they typically want to escape the dully colored asphalt, concrete, and steel cities that they work in. Vacations should ...
  June 7, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Travel To Go Complaints Department Talks World's Most Colorful Destinations to Visit in 2013
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- When people take vacations, they typically want to escape the dully colored asphalt, concrete, and steel cities that they work in. Vacations should ...
  June 7, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance