verbal
Her verbally abusive boyfriend had made her feel worthless.
He encouraged those around him both verbally and by his own example.
The ways of expressing feelings verbally and non-verbally must all be taken into account.

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verbally | Business English

verbally
adverb
uk /ˈvɜːbəli/us
using spoken rather than written communication:
accept/agree/communicate sth verbally He has verbally agreed a three-year deal worth about €2m a year.
The workers complained that managers were verbally abusive.

Examples of verbally

verbally
And what about 6/8 finales that use the hunt as a musical topic but do not identify it verbally; are they somehow different?
It occurs most frequently in pre-verbal position, with compound tenses, or post-verbally, with simple or complex tenses, before any complements and satellites.
In sentences with simple tenses it always occurs post-verbally, before any complements or satellites, as in (57).
Speakers may otherwise verbally indicate their unease with expressing a controversial view.
In addition, we asked the participants to verbally recall as many components of the figure as they can, immediately before drawing from memory.
If participants were unable to answer within 30 s, they were verbally instructed to move on to the next item.
It finds a foyer and again confirms it verbally.
In communicating a probability to be assessed to a domain expert, the probability is often transcribed verbally in terms of frequencies.
Expressing that one did not understand something properly either verbally or nonverbally.
The vignette ended with the two boys engaging in a verbally and physically aggressive interchange.
Recall that the preference for verbal gerunds over nominal gerunds is not confined to complex syntactic configurations that can only be expressed verbally.
For the speeded task, participants were told verbally and via an information screen on the computer that they would briefly see a sentence appear.
However, it is also possible to turn it into a classical representation by describing it verbally or by giving it a name.
Nouns may not be universal ; adjectives are certainly not universal, and numerals may be expressed verbally.
We have presented a theory of explicit or verbally accessible memories as events recalled through accessing a knowledge structure of self.
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