Readily

Few people who use the word readily register the fact that its letters initially stood for words: self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

The so-called "traditionalists" I don't cede the term readily often behave badly, then when you call them on it, they respond by citing how they were "hurt" and treated badly. ❋ Terry Nelson (2006)

Balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roadways. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Everyone on the ship had grown weary of the endless crying and screaming; the captain readily consented. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are many uses for this but the one that occurs to me most readily is the parish situation in which Latin is out of the question, and this is not an unusual case. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His hair had fallen over his eyes but he swept it back and joined in readily enough when Arcadio ordered another round. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are made to take up a minimal amount of space, yet remain readily available for use. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bargain is not a word readily associated with the richest league in the world but there were signs last year, when Deloitte noted that Premier League spending dropped from £525m in 2008 to £450m, that the economic climate was starting to bite. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was a genuine war hero but that status gives him no more insight into defense and foreign policy issues than either Clinton or Obama can obtain readily if they pick the right advisors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Writers in the avant-garde recognize that, if poets can earn acclaim too readily from the modern critic, then such poets must have failed to push their experimentation to an extreme beyond the acceptable parameters for innovation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Information will come more readily from the antecedents and the pre-sentence and any other reports. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)

All this talk about “corrections” has made an incorrect application of the word readily accepted SOP. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Merrin readily acknowledges the affinities between Bishop's "perceptive young children of 'First Death in Nova Scotia' and 'In the Waiting Room'" and the "nineteenth-century prototypes we find in the Lyrical Ballads," but she chooses to emphasize their differences. ❋ Unknown (1999)

He is very positive it is Chaac-mol, claiming to have read the name readily in hieroglyphics on the ear-tablets. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

The farm-horse will not do this; but he is quite obedient to call, and distinguishes his name readily from that of his companion, and will not stir when desired to stand until _his own name_ is pronounced. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Let us do so," said Martin readily, "and then the nonsense will run this way as easily as that." ❋ Unknown (1922)

'Let us do so,' said Martin readily, 'and then the nonsense will run this way as easily as that.' ❋ Unknown (1921)

Although small and insignificant-looking, she exercised a singular power over her husband, who fell in readily with all of her ideas. ❋ Unknown (1907)

The lawyer accepted the terms readily; and his client made no objection to complying with them. ❋ Edgar Jepson (1900)

1. The [information] is readily [available]. 2. He readily [agreed] to help us. ❋ AlMa (2015)