Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a dogged manner; with the pertinacity of a dog; persistently; unyieldingly.
- Badly; basely; shamefully.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with obstinate determination
Etymologies
- dogged + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The example of Woodward and Bernstein doggedly pursuing the Watergate story when no one else would is the exception rather than the rule.”
“We will pursue any and all crime doggedly, that is a promise," he said.”
“I shall be away for perhaps three months, and then, "doggedly," then I'm coming home to be married.”
“Rogoff said Hopfinger was "doggedly" pursuing an answer to Miller's employment question when he was shoved by a member of the security detail.”
“She singled out Nova Scotia Opposition MLA Cecil Clarke, a fellow Tory, for "doggedly”
“Swinging Heaven says that the practice began in Britain in the 1970s, and that the term comes from the phenomenon of voyeurs "doggedly" following people having sex.”
“He will hang ye to the nearest tree; "and with these words he drew his sword doggedly, and set his back to the hedge.”
“When you have the super detective himself, Sherlock Holmes, trying to get to the bottom of what his arch-nemesis, super villain Professor Moriartry is up to, the stage is set for a gripping narrative, as they try and outdo each other, and Watson tries doggedly to follow along.”
“When you have the super detective himself, Sherlock Holmes, trying to get to the bottom of what his arch-nemesis, super villain Professor Moriarty is up to, the stage is set for a gripping narrative, as they try and outdo each other, and Watson tries doggedly to follow along.”
“It's quintessential Baltimore: blue collar, unpretentious, doggedly local and sometimes a bit uneven.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘doggedly’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
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7thGradeWords
horde, doggedly, retina, frail, jovial, insidious, injudicious, brazen, tentative, hortle, adaver, benign and 91 more...
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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The Adverb Zoo
List of adverbs that refer to animals and their supposed behaviors or qualities, such as doggedly. Real words please.
doggedly, swinishly, porcinely, piggishly, cattily, foxily, sheepishly, fishily, pussily, mousily, goosily, hennishly and 70 more...
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nail01
sentimental, eloquent, inevitable, pretentious, verbose, aptly, stoically, grandiloquent, valedictory, assiduous, exorbitant, wreaked and 154 more...
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My List
A list of words that I have generated over time.
cairn, cacodaemoniacal, abash, abject, abjure, abstemious, abhor, abnegate, abnegation, abscond, abstruse, acclivity and 702 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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mkuo's Words
sigh, chum, clandestine, behemoth, paramour, leviathan, dollop, wastrel, pedantic, hankering, warble, lope and 317 more...
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Firesign Theatre
See also thtownse's open list, here.
pickle, rocky rococo, third eye, ruthlessly, doggedly, antelope freeway, emphysema, frog, spasmodic, isle of langerhans, postman, mailman and 47 more...
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Adverbs
phlegmatically, doggedly, stridently, consummately, succinctly, higgledy-piggledy
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