Imperiously
[ɪm'pɪrɪəsli]
Definition
(adv.) in an imperious manner; 'imperiously he cut her short'.
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Definition
(adv.) In an imperious manner.
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Examples
- Lady Dedlock looks imperiously at her visitor when the servant has left the room, casting her eyes over him from head to foot. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No mode of behavior more imperiously demands knowledge of established modes of diagnosis and treatment than does his. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You will wait here, he said imperiously. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Here, Dodo, said his master, imperiously. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No, no--give it to me; and don't preach, please, Lily returned imperiously. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Although Mr. Crackit spoke in a scarcely audible whisper, and laughed without noise, Sikes imperiously commanded him to be silent, and to get to work. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Raffles was about to speak, but Bulstrode anticipated him imperiously with the words, Be silent, sir, and hear what I have to say. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You can mean what you like, she said imperiously, but heard you will not be! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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