smartly
adv/ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/
Etymology From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.
1
With a fine or fashionable appearance.
- smartly dressed
2
Quickly.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
- He set smartly off towards the shops […]1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
3
Intelligently.