adverb
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In a personal manner.
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In person.
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Concerning oneself.
example
Personally, I think that …
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As a person.
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I like you personally, but as a colleague you are useless.
Examples of personally in a Sentence
Personally, I like it best too, and I think it's the best bargain.
Many students stopped to talk and personally thank Ms. Sidwell.
Nor did he personally have access to much money.
Yeah. The lawyer said he came by personally with the papers.
Personally, I don't buy into the paranormal.
Personally, I think people would be better off if they'd work out there own problems.
However, she still wanted to speak to her son personally as soon as she felt able.
As far as possible he saw to everything personally, and never sent away a petitioner of the lower orders.
The next three years he spent at Trier, which he chiefly made his headquarters, organizing the defence of the Rhine frontier, and personally superintending the construction of numerous forts.
He did not know Arakcheev personally, had never seen him, and all he had heard of him inspired him with but little respect for the man.
Each of us took turns thanking Merrill Cooms personally on the phone although he insisted it was unnecessary.
Look, Kris, don't take our resistance personally. Anyone who tried to step into Andre's shoes would receive the same treatment. It's too soon after his death.
She was assuming he was actually interested in her personally, not professionally.
That would terrify me personally, to be the center of attention from someone like him.
Though probably not personally avaricious, he was justly accused of nepotism.
On this fact relating to the Emperor personally, it was impossible to pass any judgment.
I do not, and never did, like Speranski personally, but I like justice!
You didn't see this stuff personally, did you?
You actually knew her personally?
My mind jingled with questions of recidivism of his souls, the operation he'd alleged to have personally endured and if others had followed suit, or, if he encouraged them to do so.
Personally, he wasn't about to let Wynn hurt any of the people he cared about.
Oh, I wouldn't take it personally.
If I hear this nonsense again, I'll send you outside the walls to deal with this mess personally.
It must not concern him, if Damian hadn't delivered the message personally.
In these two situations he made a close study of local economic conditions, personally supervising the cultivation of his lands, and entering into relations with the principal merchants of Rouen.
We are talking about a setting to your Digital Echo file that says, "Information that isn't tied to me personally can be contributed to pools of rolled-up data."
At two in the morning of the fourteenth of June, the Emperor, having sent for Balashev and read him his letter to Napoleon, ordered him to take it and hand it personally to the French Emperor.
On the twenty-fifth of August, so his historians tell us, Napoleon spent the whole day on horseback inspecting the locality, considering plans submitted to him by his marshals, and personally giving commands to his generals.
You're taking it personally.
Don't take it personally.
The facts would seem incredible were they not vouched for by Theodoret, who knew him personally (Historia religiosa, c. 26).
The archbishop did much of the work of compilation personally.
From this moment may be dated the personal reign of Peter, for he now began to direct personally all branches of the administration, and governed with indefatigable vigour for twenty-seven years, during which he greatly increased the area and profoundly modified the internal condition of his country.
Personally he was not enthusiastic over the African enterprise, as it introduced new and, to him, unaccustomed and unwelcome values into Italian political life; but he realized that public opinion demanded it and he did not care to run counter to the current.
Rightly or wrongly, he was held personally responsible for the rapprochement with France and Russia and the opposition to the Powers of the Triple Alliance; and this attitude had its effect on his career when Leo XIII.
Conway was personally one of the most popular men of his day.
Personally he had that which is the truest mark of nobility of mind, a power of attracting love and winning faithful friends.
This in itself was a serious matter; according to the assizes, the barons maintained, the king must either personally reside in the kingdom, or, in the event of his absence, be replaced by a regency.
He was especially exposed to the attacks of Bismarck, who attempted personally to discredit him and to separate him from the rest of the party.
He had lost his hold upon Pennsylvania and his support in the house, while a cabal in the senate, bitterly and personally hostile to the treasury, crippled the administration and reduced every government measure to mere inanity.
He appeared personally before successive legislative committees, and in 1846 published a pamphlet, "The Reorganization of the Judiciary," which had its influence in persuading the New York State Constitutional Convention of that year to report in favour of a codification of the laws.
In this work he personally prepared almost the whole of the political and civil codes.
Only those were eligible who personally gave in their names, a clause obviously intended to exclude Pompey, who was at the time absent in the East.
Under the emperors of the 4th century the name designated a cultivator who, though personally free, was attached to the soil, and transmitted his condition to his descendants; and this became the regular status of the mass of Roman cultivators.
Thus, whilst the members of the class were personally free, their condition had some incidents of a semi-servile character.
Sir Alfred Milner reached the Cape in May 1897, and after the difficulties with President Kruger over the Aliens' Law had been patched up he was free by August to make himself personally acquainted with the country and peoples before deciding on the lines of policy to be adopted.
Meanwhile rumours from the battle-field at Jena, magnified as usual, began to reach the staff, and these may possibly have influenced Kalckreuth, for when appealed to to attack with his eighteen battalions and win the day, he declined to move without the direct order of the commander-in-chief to do so, alleging that it was the duty of a reserve to cover the retreat and he considered himself personally responsible to the king for the guards entrusted to his care.
We know astonishingly little of him personally.
Hardly any one will be so confident of the virtue of his rulers as to believe that every war which his country wages in every part of its dominions with uncivilized as well as civilized populations, is just and necessary, and it is certainly prima facie not in accordance with an ideal morality that men should bind themselves absolutely for life or for a term of years to kill without question, at the command of their superiors, those who have personally done them no wrong."
Coleridge seemed to him to be ineffectual as a philosopher, and personally to be a melancholy instance of genius running to waste.