| 词组 | indubitably |
| 释义 | indubitably Indubitably is criticized as pretentious or stuffy by Evans 1957, Bremner 1980, and Bryson 1984. However, the description in Shaw 1975 is not as uncompromising and is closer to actual usage; Shaw says it "is less often used" than undoubtedly "because it sounds somewhat more formal and pretentious." Indubitably is not the kind of word that gets used in everyday conversation, except perhaps for humorous effect. In formal prose, where it usually appears, it can come across as pretentious, but generally only when the writer is adopting a lofty tone. Often, indubitably merely acts as an emphatic equivalent of undoubtedly. • None of these disclaimers can obviate the fact that Sacre was indubitably composed to support a choreographic story line —James Lyons, Boston Symphony Orchestra program, 8 Jan. 1972 • ... believes itself to be impregnably in the right and its opponents indubitably in the wrong —A. C Benson, From A College Window, 1906 • ... this intense and serious and indubitably great poetry —T. S. Eliot, "Marlowe," in Selected Essays, 1932 • ... the incongruity of having equal numerical representation in the General Assembly for countries indubitably unequal in many respects —Vera Mi-cheles Dean, The Four Cornerstones of Peace, 1946 • Indubitably, execution deters its victim from repeating his crime —George Stevens, Saturday Rev., 25 Sept. 1971 See also doubtless, no doubt, undoubtedly. |
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