Strenuously
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Strenuously is an adverb meaning In a strenuous manner.
Meaning
In a strenuous manner.
Example Sentences
Journalists are strenuously objecting to the plan.
Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.
Not only did I oppose President George H.W. Bush on his China policy, I strenuously disagreed with Democratic President Bill Clinton on his trade and human rights policies toward China and Tibet as well. This was difficult because I otherwise greatly supported and admired his leadership.
By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so critically pointed that, feeling him foreright against the tender opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which the lips of it, strenuously dilated, gave way to his thus assisted impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gain'd a lodgement.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include aggressively, intensely, vehemently, intensively, fiercely, vigorously.
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