He said stiffly, “I do not consider Mrs. Moore my friend, I only met her accidentally in my mosque,” and was adding “a single meeting is too short to make a friend,” but before he could finish the sentence the stiffness vanished from it, because he felt Fielding’s fundamental good will.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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— in an accidental or unintended manner : by accident
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Macmillan
— by chance, as the result of an accident
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1 use of ‘accidentally’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster