Definitions
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- adv. In a forward manner
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adv. Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a forward position; toward the anterior extremity; anteriorly.
- In a forward manner, Eagerly; promptly.
- With undue assurance; impertinently.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead of attending, I thought heavily about throwing things at the hearse as this would at least have been straight-forwardly and honestly disrespectful.
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And Matt Yglesias catches Poltico's David Rogers having the same trouble straight-forwardly describing what Republicans are up to as Steinhauer had.
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Damon assumes that it has something to do with Stefan and suggests that if he were out of the picture … Elena stops him mid sentence and threatens him straight forwardly.
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There was only one way to fly out of Port Moresby in a forwardly direction, avoiding a long backtrack to Sydney, and that was to fly to Manila.
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QUOTE 142: WEALTH is the measurable degree of forwardly organized environmental control, in terms of quickly convertible energy, capacities and performance ratioed system capabilities, per capita, per diem.
Robert David Steele: REVIEW: Buckminster Fuller's 1928 Ideas & Integrities
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Tula now swayed lasciviously, insistently, forwardly, before the table.
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Obama can answer the Ayers thing pretty straight forwardly with an explanation that will seem resonable to anyone but McCain partisans.
TPM Track Composite: Obama Takes Big Lead In Post-Veep Debate Polls
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Faddishness definitely seems to come across: the salient questions — what are the greatest sources of threat to the U.S. in the next quarter-century, and what are the best ways to counter those — have not changed, and remain as simple in the posing and complex in the answering, but still as straight-forwardly paramount in importance, as they have been since the end of bipolarity.
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I think it is simplistic to just assume that one member one vote is always the most straight-forwardly democratic process.
Why Are Some Liberals Setting Their Youth Wing Up As The 'Fall Guys' ?
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A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface.
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