Really not joking

Usage examples of seriously.

Byr, are you seriously suggesting that becoming an Affronter would be part of your price for doing what SC asks?

Every day, at the appointed hours, the principal officers of the state, the army, and the household, approaching the person of their sovereign with bended knees and a composed countenance, offered their respectful homage as seriously as if he had been still alive.

In practice, of course, it was somewhat more complicated, and the moment Brewster realized that Mick was seriously interested in actually doing it, why then, it became another interesting problem-the problem of putting theory into practice, which is something else scientists dearly love to do.

Captain bullen killed one and you seriously damaged the hand of another.

Thus they seriously impaired the social and economic homogeneity, which the pioneer believed to be the essential quality of fruitful Americanism.

Greg, that demons are taken very seriously by most of the population there, who mix Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian worship of macumba and umbanda.

Matthew had stopped by Malihini House fifteen minutes ago to apologize for his earlier behavior and to ask that I join in the search for Jillian, whose long absence was now being taken seriously by everyone.

The malpractice stuff had been more than enough to seriously disrupt and alter his life, but this criminal nonsense was a quantum leap worse, like throwing salt into a mortal wound.

Thus, ordinary, commonsense, firsthand experience is taken as seriously as scientific, third-person observations, and even the most cherished principles of scientific materialism, such as monism, are treated simply as hypotheses.

Jane was seriously affected by this unstinted praise, and she was almost overwhelmed when her monitress showed the courage of her convictions by offering a place in her box.

Also, he was regarded as a thorn in the side of the monkery, since he refused to take it seriously.

I have received a letter from De Montaigne, his brother-in-law, who seems seriously uneasy about Castruccio.

Our god spake unto Moop, and Moop did take what he spake very seriously.

Fearing that Godel will reveal his findings about the Constitution during his immigration hearing, come off as a crazy crank, and thereby seriously harm his chances of being granted citizenship, Morgenstern and Einstein urge Godel to keep his discovery to himself.

We never interacted musically, she was a little too old for our generation, not much probably, but it seemed like an eternity, so I never took her seriously musically.