Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: stoutly
IPA transcription: [st'aʊtli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: stoutly
    Meaning: in a resolute manner; "he was stoutly replying to his critics"
Usage examples
  • 'No,' returned Mrs Boffin, stoutly.
  • "I don't believe it," I said stoutly.
  • "Neither am I one of you," said Beverly stoutly.
  • "Don't want your old stamps," declared Keith, stoutly.
  • "But if she says she did, she did," she added stoutly.
  • 'No!' he said, a little sullenly, but stoutly; 'I'm NOT sorry.
  • He claimed that sumac for his very own, and stoutly battled for possession with many intruders.
  • He contemplated the lurking menaces of the future, and failed in an effort to see himself standing stoutly in the midst of them.
  • And this mere shred, hardly more than a skin that persists in living without eating, stoutly defends her egg-sack, shows fight at the approach of any tramp.
  • Bob, on the other hand, was delighted beyond measure, stoutly avowing that the falling breeze was little, if anything, short of a divine manifestation in our favour.