Why not “acidically”?

While I share the feeling that "basically" quite often has no basis--
if you will excuse the pun--it is no more nonsensical as a verbal gambit
than the time-honoured "well" which one meets in every conversation. One
hopes that examiners should look more at the factual basis of a response
and not on the basic introductory passepartout. Cutting an examinee short
with linguistic nitpicking should be declared a punishable academic
offense.

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