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earthly

 adjective
     
earth‧ly
1

no earthly reason/use etc

no reason, use etc at all:
I see no earthly reason why he shouldn't come.
2 [only before noun] literary connected with life on Earth rather than in heaven:
our earthly pleasures
an earthly paradise
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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