confidently, confidentially
- confidently, confidentially
Confidently means "with assurance, certainty, confidence": "Joe acted confidently, but his speech was halting." Confidentially means "in secret," "intimately," "in confidence": "The postman told me confidentially that the letter has been destroyed."
Dictionary of problem words and expressions.
Harry Shaw.
1975.
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