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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