Steelily
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Steelily is an adverb meaning In a steely way.
Meaning
In a steely way.
Example Sentences
'Meat,' he said steelily. 'I was right. It was a bloody butcher's knife that bastard tried to rearrange me with.'
My aunt looked at her daughter; brilliant of complexion, coldly and steelily handsome at eighteen—why should she not have admirers?
2016, Anne Fogarty, Chapter 1: ‘A World of Hotels and Gaols’, Paige Reynolds (editor), Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture, Wimbledon Publishing Company (Anthem Press), page 19, As she steelily lives through the death of Christy, she recognizes that she herself now moves irretrievably 'in a world of hotels and gaols' (145).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stonily, sternly, stalwartly, resolutely, strong-mindedly, sneerily.
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