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defiantly
[ dih-fahy-uhnt-lee ]
adverb
- with daring or bold resistance to authority:
In a fearless display, protesters chanted defiantly at police: "Come and shoot us with your tear gas!"
Other Words From
- half-de·fi·ant·ly adverb
- non·de·fi·ant·ly adverb
- o·ver·de·fi·ant·ly adverb
- qua·si-de·fi·ant·ly adverb
- un·de·fi·ant·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of defiantly1
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Example Sentences
Wallace stood defiantly in the door, head thrown back, lips tightly compressed, and Katzenbach left.
The Silver Sisters post glamorous pictures of themselves tousling their shiny locks, defiantly rebranding granny hair as hot.
A Christian might say it goes back to Adam and Eve, who abused their God-given free will in defiantly eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Digital health and micromobility is defiantly seeing unprecedented demand.
Ellen Morton replies defiantly, “Marie Kondo, you don’t know me!”
The mayor responded defiantly with a kind of military pageant that was truly bizarre for such a secretive organization.
But Kate has clung to her middle-class roots and middle-class ideas of child-rearing defiantly.
Sir Mark Sykes, a crusty diplomat who had colluded with the French to give them Damascus, was more defiantly a misogynist.
“I will answer injustice with justice,” she says defiantly, before crucifying the child-killers.
Traditionally worn by sixth-graders and jocks and those who lounge aggressively, the draw-stringed trouser is defiantly apathetic.
These resolves condemned the Stamp Act and defiantly acclaimed the rights which they considered essential to civil liberty.
She felt that her summary was precipitate, and drawing herself up defiantly looked hard at Mrs. Leslie.
There were the sounds of startled gasps behind the flashlight, then a gun barked defiantly.
She looked at Lowell defiantly as she asked the question, but he thought he detected a note of concern in her voice.
"This shall cost you dearly," said Young Glory, defiantly, as he faced the crowd.
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