Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an emotive manner.
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- adverb In an
emotive way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though experiences which have strong emotional associations are often easiest to draw upon, its not to say you need to live an intense life in order to be able to write emotively or connect with ones readers feelings.
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Anyway, she begins emotively: I went to Leyton to speak to a group of girls; they were all black, they were all aged between 15 and 18.
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As Manning shows, he was adept at tailoring his message to different audiences, often blatantly contradicting on a Wednesday what he had clearly and emotively stated on a Monday.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable – review 2011
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It is no longer easy to frame the argument – companies failing to pay the minimum wage – as emotively as before, especially at a time when the problem has been swept up in the wave of other injustices resulting from the cuts.
Forget holidays, we have trouble with tipping at home | Ross Raisin 2011
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Obama has already done much of that pre-emotively and not wisely -- with the three-year freeze on domestic discretionary spending, the freeze on federal employee salaries, the pledge to review and announced review of regulation.
Robert L. Borosage: Obama's State of the Union Challenge: Set the Course Robert L. Borosage 2011
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Believe it or not, but my first comment here was prompted in recognition that you could do with some support, i.e. that you were right to inspect the emotively packaged arguments a little more deeply, and even to call them into question.
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I mean really, how many elections do the Democrats need to learn you must connect emotively?
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This week, they just cranked the volume to a new level, as the doctors — and an out-of-mangled-body Callie — themselves become the soundtrack, emotively bleating songs from the Grey's playlist as if, in Callie's battered brain, they couldn't bottle up the emotions any longer but had to let it out through music.
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Alabama gubernatorial candidate Tim James became a minor Internet sensation after running an ad in which he quietly, emotively made the case for English-only driver's license exams.
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Once again I see the overused word 'racist', used incorrectly & deliberately emotively.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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