Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a stern manner; with severity, harshness, austerity, or rigor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a stern manner.
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- adverb In a
stern manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with sternness; in a severe manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Glancing at Juan, she saw the troubled darkness of his eyes as he gazed at the hollow, his expression sternly sober.
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Glancing at Juan, she saw the troubled darkness of his eyes as he gazed at the hollow, his expression sternly sober.
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"Also," said Tish, cutting in sternly, "you took away my revolver, and left us helpless last night, and in peril of wild beasts."
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He did not appear to fairly understand it until he was shown the chest with the ventilated lid; then his countenance cleared, and, taking the unhappy Billy by the collar, he called sternly for a piece of rope.
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Then she called sternly to her straying imagination.
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I made a quick comment of reprimand (merely saying his name sternly), and his instant, reflexive reaction was to say
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Then the messenger of the Vikings stood on the bank, he called sternly, uttered words, boastfully speaking the seafarers’ message to the earl, as he stood on the shore.
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Face it, she told herself sternly, that is a closed chapter.
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Orchard Street and nothing more, he reminded himself sternly, that is not so very bad.
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Orchard Street and nothing more, he reminded himself sternly, that is not so very bad.
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