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US
/əˈsɝtɪvɫi/
]
[ UK /ɐsˈɜːtɪvli/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈɜːtɪvli/ ]
ADVERB
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in an assertive manner
`I will take care of my own life,' she said assertively
How To Use assertively In A Sentence
- It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively - which means to live authentically-is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding - from others and also from themselves. Nathaniel Branden
- Bluntly, assertively refusing to comply with their demands withers them, because in their warped emotional environment, one person in each twosome must always dominate, the other be dominated.
- Prince Charles condemned the assertively modernist style of architecture.
- But secondly, and more assertively, they examine the extremely diverse ways in which ontological insecurity is both generated and overcome.
- An evangelical agnostic, Linton tends to be amusingly (or at least assertively) grouchy (although her antifeminism can make modern readers similarly grouchy...) Readable
- But secondly, and more assertively, they examine the extremely diverse ways in which ontological insecurity is both generated and overcome.
- Now it's reborn, in an apocalyptically apologetic and assertively undesigned designery sense. Times, Sunday Times
- `I will take care of my own life,' she said assertively
- Bluntly, assertively refusing to comply with their demands withers them, because in their warped emotional environment, one person in each twosome must always dominate, the other be dominated.
- Learning to express opinions more assertively is a form of self-expression.