Summarily

//səˈmɛɹɪli//

"Summarily" in a Sentence (10 examples)

The demand was summarily rejected.

In the U.S. there is an epidemic of police officers summarily executing young Black men.

They were fired summarily at a single plant-wide meeting.

[…] and any offender found with firearms in his possession contrary to this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof summarily convicted before any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace, of being so illegally at large as aforesaid, shall be kept to hard labour on any of the Roads or Public Works of the said colony, for any time not exceeding three calendar months.

[…] but in July 1745 he was summarily ordered by the secretary of state, the Duke of Newcastle, to return to England.

It is true that contempt committed in a trial courtroom can under some circumstances be punished summarily by the trial judge.

And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.

He covered the topic summarily in an answer to a question.

After this mention of the closing persecution, he summarily indicates all that the devil, and the city of which he is the prince, shall suffer in the last judgment.

They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.

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