steelily
English
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editsteelily (comparative more steelily, superlative most steelily)
- In a steely way.
- 1867, Gabrielle Lee, “Cash or Barter”, in Peterson's Magazine, volume 51, page 201:
- My aunt looked at her daughter; brilliant of complexion, coldly and steelily handsome at eighteen—why should she not have admirers?
- 1998, Charles Nicholl, The Fruit Palace, page 134:
- 'Meat,' he said steelily. 'I was right. It was a bloody butcher's knife that bastard tried to rearrange me with.'
- 2016, Anne Fogarty, Chapter 1: ‘A World of Hotels and Gaols’, Paige Reynolds (editor), Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture, Wimbledon Publishing Company (Anthem Press), page 19,
- As she steelily lives through the death of Christy, she recognizes that she herself now moves irretrievably 'in a world of hotels and gaols' (145).