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adverb

Roundly adv.

In a round form or manner.

Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply. "He affirms everything roundly."

Briskly; with speed. "Two of the outlaws walked roundly forward."

Completely; vigorously; in earnest.

Without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly. "In speaking roundly of this period."

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"Roundly" Quotes from Famous Books

... laurels. If gentlemen who did hunt,—so said Lord Chiltern to his own supporters,—did not know how to conduct themselves in a matter of hunting, how was it to be expected that a gentleman who did not hunt should do so? On this occasion Lord Chiltern rated his own hunt so roundly that Mr. Smith and he were quite in a bond together, and the Gartlow coverts were re-opened. Now all the world knows that the Gartlow coverts, though small, are material as being in the very centre of ...

— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope

... Dick, of course?" he said, "and put it to him roundly why he came hither, where neither ghosts nor Jesuit priests, whichever he may be, are wanted. What answered he, eh? Would I had been there to interrogate him! He should have declared how he became possessed of that ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... down, and then abused him roundly. 'What did he mean,' I asked, 'by disturbing me in this rude way? How did he dare to cause a person of my quality and evident importance to be awakened in order to ...

— Maiwa's Revenge - The War of the Little Hand • H. Rider Haggard

... unfolded the tale in all its naked veracity. It was news, fair and square value for the "thruppence," as siege value goes; but we were in no mood to appreciate the novelty of that; the circumstances were too distressing. Buller was roundly abused, and his staff also were included in a comprehensive denunciation; so that whoever was at fault in the Colenso collapse did not escape the wrath of Kimberley. As one of the Pitts (was it one of the Pitts?) has aptly said: "there are none of us infallible, not even ...

— The Siege of Kimberley • T. Phelan

... Washington scored so roundly, and so unjustly as Jefferson thought, were simply reflexes of one phase of the French Revolution. They serve to illustrate not only how dependent America was upon Europe for political guidance and how strong was ...

— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

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