heftily

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adverb

In a hefty manner; heavily.

Scrabble 16

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adverbheftily (comparative more heftily, superlative most heftily)

comparative more heftily · superlative most heftily

  1. In a hefty manner; heavily.

    [A] lightly moustached and heftily corseted matron, true blue and scaresomely indigenous, cried out in reply, ‘Not at all, dear. What's Irish about him? He's a British subject living in Ulster!’

    1990, Richard Kearney, Migrations: The Irish at Home & Abroad, Wolfhound Press, published 1976, page 23

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