modernly
advEtymology From modern + -ly.
1
In a modern manner or style.
- The living room was huge and modernly furnished. Open spaces were everywhere, the coffee table was glass-topped, the couches were lightest of tans with red roses sprinkled across them.2004, Anthony Byars, Texas, in Fact:
2
In modern times; recently.
- If our painters must clothe their portraits in idealities at all, let us at once return to the old taste in this beautiful branch of the fine arts, – as we have modernly done in our buildings, and partially in our statues […]1836, Cornelius Webbe, Glances at Life in City and Suburb, page 225: