User:Chris the speller/HyphenRegEx

Suggested "Find and replace settings" for AWB to remove unnecessary hyphens. Simply splice into your .xml settings file (make a backup of your settings file first). See the section How to splice. Then use "File/Open settings..." within AWB.

The code
 \b(careful|environmental|Environmental|frequent|ful|high|new|part|poor|public|sexual|slight|usual|wide)ly- $1ly  newly- true true true None  <Replacement> <Find>\b(whol|commercial|critical|Critical|financial|fine|former|loose|private|rapid|rare|separate)ly-</Find> <Replace>$1ly </Replace> <Comment>wholly-</Comment> <IsRegex>true</IsRegex> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <Minor>true</Minor> <RegularExpressionOptions>None</RegularExpressionOptions> </Replacement>