Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a robust manner; with great strength; muscularly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a robust manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a robust manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a robust manner
Examples
“To present this challenge in the most basic terms, because of our historical experiences, it is not beyond us to differ "robustly" - to use a hackneyed expression in this context - about whether the zebras in the Kruger National Park are black-and-white or white-and-black, and ascribe this difference to "playing the race card"!”
“To present this challenge in the most basic terms, because of our historical experiences, it is not beyond us to differ "robustly" - to use a hackneyed expression in this context - about whether the zebras in the Kruger National Park are black-and-white or white-and - black, and ascribe this difference to "playing the race card"!”
“I will make sure that because of the maintenance problems [of the F-22] that it is funded robustly - in other words, that they have spare parts, engines … engines in particular,”
“The Times reported this week that the Treasury – that old adversary of the environment – is "planning to axe hundreds of millions of pounds from Britain's renewable energy and nuclear clean-up budgets" – a move being "robustly" resisted by Chris Huhne, the energy secretary.”
“The MHRA said Monday it intends to "robustly" put forward the U. K.'s position to the European regulators during their review that Avandia should be withdrawn from sale.”
The Wall Street Journal: U.K. Medical Journal Questions Avandia License
“They have no restrictions and may self-finance as "robustly" as they wish.”
“That stock, United Therapeutics, rose $25.67 to $94.11 after the Silver Spring, Md., biotechnology company said an inhaled version of a drug for a pulmonary blood-pressure condition performed "robustly" in clinical trials.”
“Det Insp Ellis said crimes of this type were rare and the police wanted to reassure the public that the offence was being investigated "robustly" and would continue to do so until the robbers were are brought to justice.”
“American Journal of Public Health demonstrates that as a sedentary activity, television-watching alone doesn't contribute to childhood obesity; rather, it's the incessant bombardment of ads associated with television-watching that "robustly" correlates with obesity.”
“Rangers will "robustly" defend the case on the basis of expert tax advice.”
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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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deplore, immense, ominouse, dilapidated, dunghill, admonitary, procuring, legilimens, mediocre, implicitly, beseechingly, imperiously and 170 more...
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Tom Slowies
Weeeelllllll, tom swifties really but I don't think of them very often. There are zillions out there in internet land so I'm looking for fresh, really awful ones :-)
endogamously, barked, inferred, philosophically, magnanimously, carmine, murmured, judiciously, disgustedly, deduced, uttered, posthumously and 15 more...
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bilby "My oar is broken," said Tom robustly. May 23, 2012