weightily
IPA: wˈeɪtɪɫi
adverb
- In a weighty manner; ponderously; forcibly.
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Examples of "weightily" in Sentences
- “I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.
- Yevgeny Sudbin starts weightily enough, with one of Chopin's most extraordinary achievements, the F minor Fantasy.
- The Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping's playfulness is more weightily sculptural but its lightness of spirit is no less incongruous.
- I am still interested enough to watch the pilot saw his way down through the last few hundred feet to arrive weightily at Stansted.
- I could feel the heart and dedication sitting weightily along every chipped, wooden shelf where the librarians had long forgotten me, and I hunkered down into knowledge that was meted out at a rate determined by the speed at which I could read and find new volumes on the shelf.
- I hesitate to ascribe to Weldon the wisdom of the aged – because, inasmuch as she is weightily wise, she always leavens this with a wickedly dry wit; and besides, she seemed exactly the same to me as the first time I met her, which must have been 15 years ago, when she was a mere stripling of 65.
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