What is "doubly"

Usage examples of "doubly".

One cannot make the best of such impossibilities, and the question is doubly fatuous until we are told which of our two lives--the conscious or the unconscious--is held by the asker to be the truer life.

Battle of the Badges Whatever isolation Nancy Floyd was feeling on the inside of the Bureau, Ronnie Bucca was feeling doubly frustrated on the outside.

If it was hard being a small boy in a time of rapid change, it was a doubly hard burden to be a meter-tall rabbit cursed with human sentience and cunicular instincts.

He artfully fashioned a waxen mask and loose costume enabling him to pass among men as a human being of a sort, and devised a doubly potent spell with which to hold back the Dholes at the moment of his starting from the dead, black Yaddith of the inconceivable future.

She would doubly sorrow over the strange link that enchains me to her, making my spirit obey her dying voice, following her, as it is about to do, to the unknown country.

What did the Creator mean to signify, when he made such shapes of horror, and, as if he had doubly cursed this envenomed wretch, had set a mark upon him and sent him forth the Cain of the brotherhood of serpents?

It would be a doubly bizarre end for the expellees in their coma-cells, for they would be embalmed in the cocoon of foreverness without ever waking to their danger.

Underlying all considerations of shorthorns and merinos was the recollection of a timid foreign lad to be suspected for his shy, bewildered air--to be suspected again for his slim white hands--to be doubly suspected and utterly condemned for his graceful bearing, his appealing eyes, that even now Sir Matthew could see with their soft lashes drooping over them as he fronted them in his darkened office in Flinders Lane.

But now how sweet, how doubly sweet to hold All gay and gleamy to the campfire blaze.

Because his looks also made him memorable, Goss had to be doubly alert, doubly agile in eluding suspicion.

Recollect also that, if you have tempted him by the same manoeuvres which you have employed towards me, you are doubly wrong, for it may be that, if he truly loves you, you have caused him to be miserable.

Nevertheless, thoughts of stumbling, perhaps dropping the keyer, made him doubly careful.

It was becoming quite apparent that Delmot, in disposing of Orvill, Laverock, and Secane, had been playing a doubly smart game.

Apparently the mineralogist had been returning to make doubly sure the charge of trinitromite had been properly placed.

The Parisian mob, however much it had now lost of its insurrectional vigour, felt starvation no less keenly than before, and hunger made doubly dangerous the continued strugglings of Jacobins and Muscadins for power.