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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hotly
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 disputed.
widely/strongly/hotly tipped
▪ He had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
contest
▪ On the other hand, Best Supporting Actress was hotly contested.
▪ But privatization of any government function has been hotly contested issue in Sacramento.
▪ These last propositions were hotly contested in the apostolic community.
▪ That unit is expected to fetch about $ 9 billion in a hotly contested auction within a few weeks.
▪ The other awards, featured on page 15, may be more prestigious but they certainly won't be more hotly contested.
▪ H are the highest profile and most hotly contested items on the Nov. 4 ballot.
▪ The requests may signal that the jurors are focusing on the hotly contested blood evidence.
▪ On Wednesday, both sides of the hotly contested ballot initiative moved their battle into the courts.
debate
▪ The effects of television on childhood socialisation have been hotly debated for more than three decades.
▪ Mackowiak says the causes, benefits and dangers of fever in humans are hotly debated among researchers.
▪ The significance of this long-term advantage is still being hotly debated.
▪ Fifty-two percent of California voters approved the hotly debated term-limits initiative in 1990.
▪ Whilst the consequences of these changes may be hotly debated, their marketing impact on business enterprises has been immense.
▪ Whether the abandoned innards, which are consumed by coyotes and ravens, harbor the disease is hotly debated.
▪ The significance of these changes has been hotly debated; these debates will be examined later in the chapter.
▪ A second hotly debated law set up the framework for a state Earthquake Authority.
deny
▪ And if those whose symbols were thus explained hotly denied the interpretations, that would simply be further proof.
▪ This is hotly denied of course.
▪ Cross-addictions may be hotly denied because the subject matter may for some be too close for comfort.
▪ All this drew a predictably sceptical response from the archaeologists and historians, who hotly denied the existence of the Glastonbury Zodiac.
▪ But such assertions have been hotly denied by Mr Schofield.
dispute
▪ The precise part played by peasant unrest in the genesis and character of the reform has long been hotly disputed.
▪ Even that much is hotly disputed.
▪ The overall trend in peasant living standards during the period is hotly disputed.
▪ The most hotly disputed point was the size of the market.
▪ But, in the past, the species unity of mankind has been hotly disputed.
▪ It has become the most famous and hotly disputed California ballot measure since Proposition 13 cut property taxes in 1978.
▪ At other times, however, he is more circumspect and admits that this is a hotly disputed issue in biology.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And if those whose symbols were thus explained hotly denied the interpretations, that would simply be further proof.
▪ But privatization of any government function has been hotly contested issue in Sacramento.
▪ Even that much is hotly disputed.
▪ Few subjects are more hotly debated in curriculum committees.
▪ I hate this man, she thought hotly.
▪ Those provisions were the most hotly debated during the eight days the bill was considered in the Senate.
▪ Whilst the consequences of these changes may be hotly debated, their marketing impact on business enterprises has been immense.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hotly

Hotly \Hot"ly\, adv. [From Hot, a.]

  1. In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.

  2. In a lustful manner; lustfully.
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hotly

1520s, from hot + -ly (2). Compare Old English hatlice "ardently."

Wiktionary
hotly

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

WordNet
hotly

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.