colloquially

colloquial | American Dictionary

colloquial
adjective
us/kəˈloʊ·kwi·əl/
(of words and expressions) informal and conversational, and more suitable for use in speech than in writing

Examples of colloquial

colloquial
Perhaps surprisingly, given the association with women, the use of intensifiers is also associated with colloquial usage and nonstandard varieties.
Empirical support would come from the existence of the colloquial variants mentioned briefly in section 4.5 above.
These two poems have apparently both used an otherwise unrecorded colloquial word.
All but one of them found the concordance lines "slightly overwhelming" and "difficult to understand" (p. 245) because of their colloquial nature.
This reflects its status as a widespread marker variable of covert-prestige accents and colloquial styles.
Much of acrolectal speech is colloquial and often contains nonstandard features.
One was written in an informal colloquial style; the other, in a formal, almost businesslike style.
He accepted the colloquial use of the word emotion.
On posttest, however, in the intervention group, colloquial names were practically wiped out, though the decrease was insignificant, whereas standard names significantly and substantially increased.
This variety alternates with colloquial varieties, which are most notably used for everyday conversation.
On pretest, colloquial and standard letter names were rarely reported, both in the intervention and in the comparison groups.
A second potential problem is to do with colloquial versus literary speech.
She was instructed to read the sentences in a normal, colloquial way.
Perhaps appropriate for a prose work, yet in fact their translation is at times highly colloquial and generally quite readable.
We can also talk of both formal and informal usage on the one side and colloquial language and slang on the other.
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