decidedly

[ UK /dɪsˈa‍ɪdɪdli/ ]
[ US /ˌdɪˈsaɪdədɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. without question and beyond doubt
    she told him off in spades
    it was decidedly too expensive
    by all odds they should win
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How To Use decidedly In A Sentence

  • Such a usage is ethically unacceptable, politically manipulative and decidedly unhistorical.
  • Faced by those constraints, the soldiers of the Royal Anglians face an uphill task and the official three-year time limit is already looking decidedly niggardly.
  • An interlude of steel drum, tympani, and bongo injected a decidedly powerful tribal element to the experience.
  • Croi from time immemorial had been renowned for its devout and strict observance of papistic rites and ceremonies; the Counts of Nassau had gone over to the new sect -- sufficient reasons why Philip of Croi, Duke of Arschot, should prefer a party which placed him the most decidedly in opposition to the Prince of Orange. History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
  • Her formative years were decidedly odd. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is the realm of _psychical life_; and, still more decidedly and more evidently, the _realm of mind_. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
  • The latter was the last general to serve in the White House and did so in a decidedly unmilitary fashion.
  • He is looking decidedly ropey. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some of the football, especially in the opening half, was decidedly moderate.
  • Facing the dilemmas of ethical behaviour in a decidedly unethical society is the harder choice.
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