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US
/ˈstaʊtɫi/
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[ UK /stˈaʊtli/ ]
[ UK /stˈaʊtli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a resolute manner
he was stoutly replying to his critics
How To Use stoutly In A Sentence
- After six expeditions to Easter Island, including one in 1986 during which he uncovered ancient ceremonial constructions, human teeth and bones, soil containing charcoal, and stonework similar to that found in pre-Inca sites, Thor stoutly phonated that the island's first inhabitants arrived from Peru around 800 B.C., traveling in balsa-log rafts, such as the one he sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947, the raft he called Kon Tiki. Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II)
- As Valentine's Day approaches each year he stoutly proclaims his disdain for this "faux holiday, this commercial invention by some ad man or company created for the sake of making a few bucks, selling silly, heart-shaped cards, bouquets and chocolates. Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte
- Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46 Agesilaus
- Calhoun, stoutly and correctly insisted, It is not another Fukushima. Carl Pope: Saved -- in Spite of Ourselves
- A word ever circulated between male philtrum very long: If date before 3 times to did not get decided word, so abandon stoutly.
- Until the past year Mr. Leigh had been the kind of stoutly energetic older man you call _hale, hearty. The Devil's Bedpost
- The hugely controversial contiguous cull of livestock to combat the foot-and-mouth epidemic was stoutly defended by the Government.
- That plaguesome Polypheme was Captain Stubbard, begirt with a wife, and endowed with a family almost in excess of benediction, and dancing attendance upon Miss Dolly, too stoutly for his own comfort, in the hope of procuring for his own Penates something to eat and to sit upon. Springhaven
- Its well-muscled body is supported by stoutly boned, short to medium legs that give the cat a low-slung appearance.
- They Pakistanis have stoutly denied any association with the hijacking.