Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a keen manner; eagerly; sharply; with keenness or intensity; acutely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a keen manner.
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- adverb In a
keen manner.
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- adverb in a keen and discriminating manner
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Examples
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He has broad experience writing about many parts of the world, in keenly observant and idea-inflected prose.
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He has broad experience writing about many parts of the world, in keenly observant and idea-inflected prose.
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For Alfred Nobel - I use the words of Professor Henrik Schück - was "a lonely man and with his sensitive nature he suffered keenly from the misfortune of being without a home" 1.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Nobel Lecture 1954
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And the other strong and abiding matter which the British people feel so deeply and so keenly, is that not only must they be secure from any oppression of their rights by their neighbours, but that also they must be made secure from any oppression by the State.
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Although the wind blew keenly from the north, the sky was blue, and the winter sun shone brightly on the gay colors of their holiday clothes, making the gold ornaments of the women, and the helmets and shields of the soldiers, glitter and sparkle.
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920
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His features were well shaped, his expression keenly intelligent, indomitably resolute, fearless, and somewhat haughty, and there was a certain hardness about the chiselling of his mouth that suggested cruelty.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886
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I don’t drink of smoke and I would love to have all of my sharp (as in keenly or acutely) senses to see him.
Twilight Lexicon » Music As Important As Ever For Robert Pattinson 2009
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He’s in keenly in tune with the mystical force that binds the universe together.
John Joseph Adams » The Slush God Speaketh…to Trent Hergenrader 2006
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I recall keenly the days of the run-up to the Iraq war.
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I recall keenly the days of the run-up to the Iraq war.
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