Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a weighty manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a weighty manner.
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- adverb In a
weighty manner;ponderously ;forcibly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a serious manner
- adverb as something very heavy
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Examples
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“I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.
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“I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.
Books Maxine 2009
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The Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping's playfulness is more weightily sculptural but its lightness of spirit is no less incongruous.
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I hesitate to ascribe to Weldon the wisdom of the aged – because, inasmuch as she is weightily wise, she always leavens this with a wickedly dry wit; and besides, she seemed exactly the same to me as the first time I met her, which must have been 15 years ago, when she was a mere stripling of 65.
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“I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.
June 2009 Maxine 2009
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Yevgeny Sudbin starts weightily enough, with one of Chopin's most extraordinary achievements, the F minor Fantasy.
Chopin: Ballades Nos 3 and 4; F minor Fantasy; Mazurkas; Nocturnes – review 2011
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“I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.
PETRONA Maxine 2009
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“I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.
More from To steal her love, by Matti Joensuu Maxine 2009
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I am still interested enough to watch the pilot saw his way down through the last few hundred feet to arrive weightily at Stansted.
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I could feel the heart and dedication sitting weightily along every chipped, wooden shelf where the librarians had long forgotten me, and I hunkered down into knowledge that was meted out at a rate determined by the speed at which I could read and find new volumes on the shelf.
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