What is "decidedly"

Usage examples of "decidedly".

But as Adams found, Dutch talk of financial support and an actual Dutch loan were decidedly different matters, his initial high expectations to the contrary.

The truth, it happens, was that Adams and Jefferson both wanted peace with France and each was working to attain that objective, though in their decidedly different ways.

Asgard both before and after the tour on Adirondack, and by their standards the Raptopia was decidedly unsophisticated.

This is decidedly the most reliable anthelmintic known to the medical profession.

Tammaron looked decidedly uneasy, Hubert drew himself up in his full archepiscopal dignity.

In fact, the look he gave the old bogwood clock on the mantel was decidedly grim.

Uncle and the two green Aunties had decidedly adopted Camo as their feeding perch.

As a result, the vast majority of Coloradans view the decidedly less-than-conservative city of Boulder either as an amusing curiosity or, less benignly, as an irritating oddity.

I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.

This was a decidedly unfair question, to which Feth attempted no direct answer.

I am strengthened in this conviction by a remarkable statement repeatedly made by Gartner, namely, that if even the less fertile hybrids be artificially fertilised with hybrid pollen of the same kind, their fertility, notwithstanding the frequent ill effects of manipulation, sometimes decidedly increases, and goes on increasing.

Still, Crawton was beginning to mistrust the man- and he decidedly did not appreciate the remarks Gibbs had made about his son.

But we know that Howe was dissatisfied with Heister before the affair at Trenton, at a time when the English losses had been decidedly heavier than the Hessian.

The countenance of the Herr Hofmeister changed from official sternness to an expression of decent concern as he listened, and ere long it took a decidedly forgiving laxity of muscle.

It was odd, thought Sheila, making a rambling incursion in literary criticism, that verse so wildly exciting in its day should be decidedly hypnoidal now.