Accidently

Quick meaning: Accidently is an adverb meaning (now nonstandard) Accidentally; by chance, unintentionally.

Meaning

(now nonstandard) Accidentally; by chance, unintentionally.

Example Sentences

Juan accidently spills some coffee on a client during a business meeting. Juan's tort is clearly in the scope of employment.

As I arrived at the foot of the hill I overtook two ladies, whom I passed. As I did so, I brushed one of them accidently on the arm.

[T]he exceptions remind me of an ingenious conjecture respecting Newton: that he was probably a being of a superior order, accidently caged in a human body.

[R]elayed similar cases but suspected that the rocks were accidently dislodged as the animals fled. […] Hall (1963) considered the same data and concluded that while such behavior might originate accidently during flight or display, […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inadvertently, unaccidentally, semiaccidentally, occasionally, incidentally, unintentionally.

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