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hotly

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 With great amounts of heat 2 In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES are hotly debated (= argued about strongly ) ▪ His conclusions are hotly debated . hotly deny sth (= in an angry or excited way ) ▪ She hotly denied ever having taken drugs. hotly disputed ▪ What happened next is hotly ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a heated manner; "`To say I am behind the strike is so much nonsense,' declared Mr Harvey heatedly"; "the children were arguing hotly" [syn: heatedly ]

Usage examples of hotly.

Unconscious of the fact that he was still carrying the shovel, he made his way wearily up the steps, with Dopey panting hotly, but happily, on his heels.

I beeing thus taken, with extreame compulsion, I was bolde with an vnaccustomed admyration, dilligently to looke vpon her rare shape, and louely features, my eyes making themselues the swallowing whirlpooles of her incomparable beautie: and they were no sooner opened, hotly to take in the sweete pleasure of her so benigne and conspicuous presence, but they were strengthened for euer, to hold with them solaciously agreeing, the assembly of all my other captiued sences, that from her and no other, I did seeke the mittegation and quenching of my amorous flames.

Bonnemaison, employed in repairing roads, observed that rabbits, when hotly pursued by the sportsman, ran into a hole which they had burrowed in a talus of small fragments of limestone and earthy matter lodged in a depression on the face of a steep escarpment of nummulitic limestone which forms the bank of a small brook near the town of Auvignac.

All the while his gaze hotly devoured Danielle, who worked just as intently on ridding herself of her clothing.

In Tysan, where the feud between townborn and clan burned hotly enough without impetus from geas-cursed princes, Lady Maenalle shrank to imagine what extremity might bring this man to leave his native glens, to abandon his people and risk an overland journey through hostile territory to seek her.

It was being played somewhat unhandily and the strains were those of hotly syncopated music taken at a funeral pace.

Ursula, angry at being treated quite so insultingly DE HAUT EN BAS, from the height of esoteric art to the depth of general exoteric amateurism, replied, hotly, flushing and lifting her face.

Speech was a communal howl, the bathroom door opened onto a hotly lit sidereal reality, and the bartender posed a cryptic shadow against what an unwitting soul might take for an illuminated mirror but was in truth an illusion cast by a malefic device of unguessable origin.

It flared hotly, like gunpowder ignited in the open, searing the side of the island and three men standing below, cracking the glass in Fly Control and then rolled and tumbled down the flight deck, spraying out the white picric acid of its explosive filler.

When the snowcat is pursued hotly, she heads for her den, as every wall of that she knows well and she will use all she knows.

And she blushed hotly at being betrayed into a personality which seemed to her undignified, and, what was worse, unrefined.

But his wrath flared hotly against his archenemy, the King of the Franks.

There were reporters who took note of the happenings of the town, journalists who debated hotly the condition of affairs, and even feuilletonists who endeavoured to enliven these tragic days.

The noise increased--crash on crash, plunge on plunge--with the thick grunting of a hotly pressed nilghai, flying in panic terror and taking no heed to his course.

The big room shared by Prince and ollave was seldom empty of convivial company disputing hotly in French, Irish, English, Latin.