STURDILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sturdily mean? 

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

1. in a sturdy manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STURDILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sturdy manner

Context example:

feet sturdily apart

Pertainym:

sturdy (having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships)

 Context examples 

“I like it not,” said the other sturdily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sank his tiny teeth into one of the wings and pulled and tugged sturdily.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I sat there, sturdily conning my books, until dinner-time (we were out of school for good at three); and went down, hopeful of becoming a passable sort of boy yet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Long ere Alleyne was out of sound of the Beaulieu bells he was striding sturdily along, swinging his staff and whistling as merrily as the birds in the thicket.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)