Defiantly
[dɪ'faɪəntli]
Examples
- He looked defiantly around the table, his eyes flat, his face pale. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Mrs Lammle disdained to reply, and sat defiantly beating one foot on the ground. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- With her touch lingering upon it, she sat for some moments afterwards, looking at it steadily and half-defiantly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You seem to speak with some peculiar meaning, sir, said Lydgate, rather defiantly, and keeping his pencil suspended. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Lavvy, sitting with defiantly folded arms, replied (but not audibly), 'For goodness' sake say whichever of the two you like best, Ma, and get it over. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She looked round at him, rather defiantly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Meg lifted her eyebrows, but Jo scowled at her defiantly and said at once, Of course you may. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Editor: Whitney