Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A variant of hardly.
  • In a hardy manner; boldly; with hardiness; with confidence.
  • Surely; certainly; of course; indeed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete Same as hardly.
  • adverb Boldly; stoutly; resolutely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a hardy manner.

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Examples

  • Overall, I can hardily recommend this shotgun if they stayed with a wining formula.

    Savage 220F 2009

  • Overall, I can hardily recommend this shotgun if they stayed with a wining formula.

    Savage 220F 2009

  • Overall, I can hardily recommend this shotgun if they stayed with a wining formula.

    Savage 220F 2009

  • If Obama and the administration were against the public option, the republicans (including the conservatives and religious right) would be whole hardily in favor of the public option!

    Obama considering major health care speech 2009

  • Overall, I can hardily recommend this shotgun if they stayed with a wining formula.

    Savage 220F 2009

  • Overall, I can hardily recommend this shotgun if they stayed with a wining formula.

    Savage 220F 2009

  • Overall, I can hardily recommend this shotgun if they stayed with a wining formula.

    Savage 220F 2009

  • Sometimes the smile that comes through the tears – the more hardily won – is the far more treasured one than the simple grin that comes from simple pleasures.

    Happily Ever After… at SF Novelists 2009

  • Most of these pretentious, search-engine-inspired comments FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THE MOVIE YET really make me laugh hardily truly not attempting to be condescending, just sayin.

    Fantastic Fest Review: Rampage - Uwe Boll Actually Made a Good Movie?! | /Film 2009

  • This made the rental attendant laugh quite hardily.

    The Covenant of Arko arhyalon 2007

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