solidly

comparative more solidly · superlative most solidly

1. In a solid or firm manner.

   Within school, 19 of 21 teachers were firmly committed behind me, were with me solidly.

   1979 February 10, Denise Sudell, quoting Larry Berner, “California Teacher Plans Suit Against Anti-Gay Group”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 3

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   BEFORE school rocketed into his tiny world with about as much warning as a sputnik, my son knew only little hates. I knew he had got himself a bigger one when he said to me after his first day there: “School, I HATE IT!” He’s been hating it solidly ever since . . . for all of ten weeks.

   1957 November 14, Sputnik [pseudonym], “My Son Hates School”, in Daily Record, number 19,357, Glasgow: Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2

   And Trippier's measured penalty was another indication of his growing maturity at this level, the Spurs full-back having again performed solidly down England's right.

   2018 July 3, Phil McNulty, “Colombia 1 - 1 England”, in BBC Sport