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sternly
adverb as in seriously
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adverb as in severely
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“Like a big sister who everyone ignores when cooing over the new baby,” she scolded herself sternly.
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“Woof,” repeated Mama Woof, more sternly this time.
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“I did not ask to buy your velocipede; I asked to borrow it,” she replied sternly.
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“The Insider” details these events sternly but with evident reluctance.
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In a sternly worded statement before Friday’s vote, Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez wrote that the city attorney’s “position does not speak for the full City Council.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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