adverb
definition
In a rhetorical manner.
definition
With reference to rhetoric.
Examples of rhetorically in a Sentence
When a noun comes first, it is followed by a relative pronoun, thus, Dafydd a brynodd lyfr yno, which really means " (it is) David who bought a book there," and is never used in any other sense in the spoken language, though in literary Welsh it is used rhetorically for the simple statement which is properly expressed by putting the verb first.
The comment was not an indication of Mr Smith's political inexperience, a spokesman told us, it was meant rhetorically.
The English form "eremite," which was used, according to the New English Dictionary, quite indiscriminately with "hermit" till the middle of the 17th century, is now chiefly used in poetry or rhetorically, except with reference to the early hermits of the Libyan desert, or sometimes to such particular orders as the eremites of St Augustine (see Augustinian Hermits).
For some people, the question refers to the site rhetorically, as Yahoo mail has fallen out of grace with many due to newer rising technologies.