HOTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hotly mean? 

• HOTLY (adverb)
  The adverb HOTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a heated manner

  Familiarity information: HOTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a heated manner

Synonyms:

heatedly; hotly

Context example:

the children were arguing hotly

Pertainym:

hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)

 Context examples 

“How, you foul knave?” exclaimed Sir Nigel hotly.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You are really intolerable!" said I, hotly.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I care for nothing now," he answered hotly, "except to wipe out this brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“You villain!” cried my uncle, hotly; “this is your doing.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Tucked away out of sight, I dare say," thought Jo, who could forgive her own wrongs, but hotly resented any insult offered her family.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Again I fled to the boat, hotly pursued; but this time Maud made no suggestion of turning back.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He leaned his head back and closed his eyes; and like a child, crying, that forgets its grief in watching the sunlight percolate through the tear-dimmed films over the pupils, so Martin forgot his sickness, the presence of Ruth, everything, in watching the masses of vegetation, shot through hotly with sunshine that took form and blazed against this background of his eyelids.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I am sure when I think of the fellow now, my blood rises against him with the disinterested indignation I should feel if I could have known all about him without having ever been in his power; but it rises hotly, because I know him to have been an incapable brute, who had no more right to be possessed of the great trust he held, than to be Lord High Admiral, or Commander-in-Chief—in either of which capacities it is probable that he would have done infinitely less mischief.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises—the chair and table went over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I will have a hotly seasoned dish for some folk I know of,” answered Don Pedro with a cold smile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)