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avidly

adv. In an avid manner; greedily; eagerly.

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avidly

adv. in an avid manner; "whatever the flavor or color of your local paper, do remember that these are read avidly for local information"

Usage examples of "avidly".

Hitler followed avidly the activities of the three major political parties of old Austria: the Social Democrats, the Christian Socialists and the Pan-German Nationalists.

Vienna, for they were popular among the Pan-German and anti-Semitic groups whose literature he devoured so avidly in those early days.

Neither looked in very good nick, but they were talking avidly, peering toward the door.

Necronomicon, in those parts which Wilbur had sought so avidly, seemed to supply new and terrible clues to the nature, methods, and desires of the strange evil so vaguely threatening this planet.

Satanism, and at all times he devoured avidly any doctrine or theory which seemed to promise escape from the close vistas of science and the dully unvarying laws of Nature.

It was she who had started sneaking cucumbers into their room, where they had all laughingly practiced the act they so avidly watched.

Now she watched everything avidly, her grip on his waist and the back of his saddle just enough to keep her steady and balanced, and when he looked back at her, she was smiling, and her kohl-lined eyes were wide and bright.

Monday around noon he was allowed to sit in a deck-chair, on the lawn, which he had avidly gazed at for some days from his window.

Some were fearful or anxious, others avidly curious, a few merely interested.

Wags thought so too as the dog avidly sniffed around the base of the stalls.

It has been avidly read until Philip of Spain has earned the contempt of every upright man.

While Kirk waited impatiently, Commander bn Bem avidly examined the steady stream of information.

Behind them both, Gul Aluf, having been brought to consciousness by Nith Einon the moment he entered the lab-orb, avidly listened to this conversation.

He first rinsed his mouth, spit out the pinkish fluid, then threw back his head and avidly guzzled at least half the quart of tepid brandy-water, and it was only then that he became fully aware of his surroundings.

She was no longer La Marquesa, now she was El Mirador, and though she was still a flawless woman she was also a person to whom he listened avidly.