imperiously
IPA: ɪmpˈɪriʌsɫi
adverb
- In an imperious manner; in the style of an emperor.
- In a way that brooks no refusal; commandingly.
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Examples of "imperiously" in Sentences
- Grandmother called imperiously, but there was no answer.
- His wife shouted out his name imperiously from the dark passage, "Fritz!
- Therefore, 'Hey! boy,' she called imperiously, 'come and help me! quick!'
- 'You!' the Italian called imperiously to a youth pressing forward to hear the conversation.
- "Who is it?" he called imperiously, and took a half dozen rapid strides toward the foot of the staircase.
- "Don't you drive over them wickets!" she called imperiously, when Eben came up from the lot in his dingle cart.
- She's penniless, "and he called imperiously for a magnum of champagne, whereupon the bartender suggested we go elsewhere.
- For no sooner had the ghost, armed with the stone club, stepped down to the sea-shore than he called imperiously for the ferry-boat.
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