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Astringently

Astringently \As*trin"gent*ly\, adv. In an astringent manner.

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astringently

adv. In the manner of an astringent.

Usage examples of "astringently".

I reminded myself astringently that people had been known to crawl down mountains with much worse broken bones: they wouldn’t have made a fuss over one little flight upward.

You've got to call Father she said, and again more astringently next morning going through that blue folder adding columns of figures, going through the mounting heap of mail my God, haven't you opened any of this?

Then, more astringently: "In any case, we've scarcely time for sentimentality.

Some quality in the optelectronic voice, a kind of metallic twang, rendered it astringently clear, and at the same time unmistakably distinguishable from any of the humans.