Usually means: Orderly and conforming to rules.
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  1. ruly: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ruly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ruly: Vocabulary.com
  6. ruly: Wordnik
  7. ruly: Wiktionary
  8. Ruly, ruly: Dictionary.com
  9. Ruly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. ruly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. ruly: Rhymezone
  12. Ruly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. ruly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. ruly: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ruly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ruly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ruly: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ruly)

▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Pitiable; miserable.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Pitiably; miserably.
▸ adjective:  (rare) Neat and orderly.

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tidy, ruthful, commiserable, ruesome, pitisome, plightful, woeful, sorry, rueful, pitiable, more...



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