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AUDACIOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does audaciously mean?
• AUDACIOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb AUDACIOUSLY has 1 sense:
1. in an audacious manner
Familiarity information: AUDACIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an audacious manner
Context example:
an idea so daring and yet so audaciously tempting that a shiver of excitement quivered through him
Pertainym:
audacious (disposed to venture or take risks)
Context examples
“You are a sort of monster,” I added audaciously, “a Caliban who has pondered Setebos, and who acts as you act, in idle moments, by whim and fancy.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She was audaciously prejudiced in my favour, and quite unable to understand why I should have any misgivings, or be low-spirited about it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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