'doubly' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as an adverb to mean to an even greater degree. For example, "After the second round of layoffs, morale was doubly low."
This state of affairs is doubly extraordinary because, unlike the 1930s or late 19th century, there is a welfare state – even if it is under assault from the coalition – which thankfully underwrites collective demand.
But it ended badly: the strand was photographed trying to take steroids, which was doubly tragic since, a) it had no discernible mouth and, b) the steroid pill was approximately 3,000 times its size.
Since everything that exists is thought to come from the spirit world, androgynous or transgender persons are seen as doubly blessed, having both the spirit of a man and the spirit of a woman.
This scheme is doubly beneficial because it returns girls to school and provides employment in the local area.
Taxpayers will end up paying doubly, once through loose subsidies to dodgy banks and the second time as the recession bites and they risk losing their jobs, homes and going further into debt.
This was doubly disturbing for a community whose ancient funereal ceremonies lay great store by ritual purification and distancing the living from the 'contagion' of a corpse.
In many cases there will be risk issues – and it is doubly concerning that all public sector budgets are being slashed and this is bound to put more children at risk".
And it's doubly disappointing when you think what the win might have done for us.
If some of these people are also socially insecure enough to want to hunt, I feel doubly embarrassed for them.
So it is perhaps doubly unfortunate (or, cynically well-timed) that this week's media blitz also sees parliament racing to undo the rules of Protestant succession for the crown, and the Ministry of Defence sacking another 5,000 soldiers.
Not a few on Wall Street regard the idea as dotty; they wish the SEC would regain the initiative in introducing reforms at a federal level, not, as is happening now, in a piecemeal way led by a few states.While uncertainty remains at the SEC, the job of the new accounting oversight board will be doubly difficult, if it can be done at all.
