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US
/dəˈtɝməndɫi, dəˈtɝmənədɫi/
]
[ UK /dɪtˈɜːmɪnˌɪdli/ ]
[ UK /dɪtˈɜːmɪnˌɪdli/ ]
ADVERB
-
with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner
she pursued her goals ambitiously -
with determination; in a determined manner
he clung to the past determinedly
How To Use determinedly In A Sentence
- After a few minutes of that, his expression stilled, schooled once more into the calm mask he so determinedly holds. Jaxraven Diary Entry
- It's added a rare touch of glamour to the club, whose space-age stadium squats anomalously on the edge of a determinedly humdrum town.
- The natural hazards are too numerous and the climate too determinedly extreme to tolerate inhabitation by anybody but the most intrepid and self-reliant.
- It was at the same time a highly polished and determinedly casual affair. Times, Sunday Times
- Why, in a decade when public discourse about sex has become determinedly forthright, is abortion so hard to say? On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
- The whole scene represented by these extensive remains is determinedly backward-looking and insular.
- These locutions are determinedly descriptive.
- Now it becomes more difficult for those who kept wanting to give this Feisal Abdul Rauf the benefit of the doubt to keep calling him a "moderate" without any supporting evidence, or to fall back on his self-description as a "Sufi" as if that implied some kind of Gandhian satyagraha, when Sufis can be just as determinedly bent on Jihad, that is, the "struggle" to remove all obstacles to the spread and then the dominance of Islam as any other Muslim group. FrontPage Magazine
- Reviews: ‘Michael Caine re-dons spycatcher duds in Blue Ice, a determinedly old-fashioned actioner that’s terminally light on real thrills.’ Gone to Norway, bumper post below
- At the tender age of nine he was well aware of how extraordinarily lucky he had been and has since made a point of being determinedly positive and forward-looking.