passingly
- adverb
- /ˈpæsɪŋli/
:
de manera pasajera
- And I have to say that as a conscientious American who is at least passingly familiar with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and who took enough journalism classes in high school and college to know the rights and duties of the "4th estate,"
Examples
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The context, the legal context are set by things like Megan's Law and Jessica's Law, with which you may be at least passingly familiar.
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And they talked passingly about women.
Fiction book (1994) -
I am at least passingly familiar with most of the series it mentions, and so I question the validity of the work repeatedly.
Blog text (33) -
I don't know, but I do think, I mean, you discover stuff and seeing bands that you like only passingly you're familiar with when you see them live.
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Both Hunter and Franke focus on Justice Kennedy's majority opinion while passingly mentioning the dissent of Justice Scalia.
Academic text (2011) -
They only talked about the movie passingly, so I wasn't sure if they liked it.
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The professor mentioned the topic passingly during the lecture but didn't go into detail.
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She was only passingly aware of the event, having heard about it through friends.
Synonyms
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2.5
In a relaxed, not very careful way
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3.8
While mentioning something briefly without giving it much attention
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7.7
Quickly and not carefully, so you miss details
To say something quickly as a side remark, not as the main point
To mention something briefly without giving details
How Brief
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Passingly comes from pass and passing, which mean 'to go by' or 'to pass by', so to do something passingly is to do it 'in passing' — briefly or only a little.