Heftily

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a hefty manner; heavily.

    "[A] lightly moustached and heftily corseted matron, true blue and scaresomely indigenous, cried out in reply, ‘Not at all, dear. What's Irish about him? He's a British subject living in Ulster!’"

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"[A] lightly moustached and heftily corseted matron, true blue and scaresomely indigenous, cried out in reply, ‘Not at all, dear. What's Irish about him? He's a British subject living in Ulster!’"

Etymology

From hefty + -ly.

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