STERNLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sternly mean? 

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

1. with sternness; in a severe manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STERNLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With sternness; in a severe manner

Synonyms:

severely; sternly

Context example:

peered severely over her glasses

Pertainym:

stern (of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect)

 Context examples 

His face was sternly set as he spoke:—There is no time to lose.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Get back into your chair!” said Holmes sternly.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have trusted you too long, Effie,” he cried, sternly.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Why, what do you mean?” said the tinker, looking so sternly at me, that I almost feared he saw the money in my pocket.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The explorer took his cigar from his lips and gazed sternly at my companion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We have come too late,” he said sternly, “whether to save or punish. Hyde is gone to his account; and it only remains for us to find the body of your master.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I am, as you are aware, Lord Avon’s dearest friend,” said my uncle, sternly.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Now, Morgan,” said Long John very sternly, “you never clapped your eyes on that Black—Black Dog before, did you, now?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A soft hope blest with my sorrow that soon I should dare to drop a kiss on that brow of rock, and on those lips so sternly sealed beneath it: but not yet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“She broke away from your influence when she found the man that you are,” said Holmes, sternly.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)