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Meanings of perfectly in English

Portuguese
100 por cento

Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers.

100 por cento
Portuguese
perfeitamente
Spanish
perfectamente

In a perfect or faultless way.

perfeitamente
Usage of perfectly in English
1
Of course, Microsoft had perfectly good reasons for undertaking the security overhaul.
Wired
2
The industry proposals are perfectly sensible and increase parental control and choice.
The Guardian
3
And yet, this almost perfectly describes what actually happened this past week.
The Guardian
4
Let's be perfectly clear: This rule only applies to our domestic travellers.
The South African
5
It's perfectly logical; you talk like somebody living a thousand years ago.
Nova
6
Still, he decided to make the gravity of the situation perfectly clear.
The charlemagne pursuit
7
The other possible future is like that of Google Glass: Worked perfectly.
Radio NZ
8
Weather was the first excuse given, although the sky was perfectly clear.
Ape House
9
It's perfectly reasonable to ask comedians questions about biscuits, by the way.
The Guardian
10
Their plan-theyears of infiltration and the moments of violence-hadgone perfectly.
The Big U
11
Even if these machines work perfectly, I think they will undermine democracy.
Wired
12
The Guild gave us food and perfectly controlled weather and health patches.
Crewel
13
They had executed the plan perfectly: no alarms, no police, no problems.
Wired
14
I would have thought I'd made that perfectly clear at this point.
The sherlockian
15
He disliked the Young Ireland men-William Mountwalsh was perfectly right about that.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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Now I think, Watson, that our line of action is perfectly clear.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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