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parenthetically
adverb as in by the way
adverb as in incidentally
Strong match
Example Sentences
“Do you even want to get into a discussion of gender roles here,” Crane asks parenthetically, “or can we accept that they both chose chores that they minded least or maybe even liked?”
That I shouldn’t be expected to was evidenced by your editor’s belated recognition of this likelihood by the decision to parenthetically define “NIL” 132 words into the article.
“Obviously, this is happening because their candidates and campaigns are behind in the polls and they’re looking for anything that can stick,” he wrote, before adding parenthetically, “I’m familiar with how this stuff works.”
Occasionally, this commitment to the subjective past creates some cringe-worthy moments, as when he names the author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore seemingly only for the purpose of parenthetically deadnaming her a moment later.
The next May, the president of the society remarked parenthetically that the past year had not yielded any particularly noteworthy discoveries.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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