toughly
IPA: tˈʌfɫi
adverb
- In a tough manner.
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Examples of "toughly" in Sentences
- Today's conservatives have translated that into "Talk toughly while toting a tiny twig".
- Vuturo toughly cross-examined arresting officers demanding they tell in detail what they saw and what they did.
- The goal brought to life a toughly contested game in which both tired-looking teams battled to find any rhythm.
- And as a veteran of the browser wars, she knew that every point of market share was as toughly contested as a football goal-line stand.
- Lafeu, as it happens, is expressing himself in prose: the kind of toughly, densely-argued prose that Hamlet uses when he gets down to bedrock.
- With Mary Schapiro testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, the Project on Government Oversight has released some toughly-worded questions for her.
- "We have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill," Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell toughly insisted, "and replace it with common sense reforms to bring down the cost of health care."
- No matter how courageous I tried to be in jails and (penal) colonies all over Russia, but after the 9th of July I had really to pull myself together toughly, so that, quite trivially, my handwriting would be readable, and my thoughts would stop being like disorderly rabble.
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