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Answer for the clue "How a steep slope rises ", 7 letters:
sheerly

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. absolutely; thoroughly; utterly; purely; quite

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Sheerly \Sheer"ly\, adv. At once; absolutely. [Obs.]

Usage examples of sheerly.

Unless he had gone sheerly cuckoo, he couldn't hope to steal so much as a spoon that night, after his intentions had been so widely and openly proclaimed, without convicting himself on his own confession.

Now it has become to such an extent a sheerly mechanistic world, as interpreted through our physical sciences, Marxist sociology, and behavioristic psychology, that we're nothing but a predictable pattern of wires responding to stimuli.

He was operating sheerly on instinct, a soldier ant mindlessly constructing fortifications.