roundly
/ɹˈaʊndli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
adv
Utterly or thoroughly.
adv
adv
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda."
- "When, over in the east, General Valentine Baker led his force of four thousand irregulars against Osman Digna, he was roundly thrashed."
- "A few short years ago, Musk was roundly mocked as a crazy con artist on the verge of going broke. Now this shy South African with Asperger’s syndrome, who escaped a brutal childhood and overcame personal tragedy, bends governments and industry to the force of his ambition."
- "Weak management and a small team of civil servants who were out of their depth have been roundly blamed for the £4 billion overspend on London's Elizabeth line (Crossrail) and its opening four years late in May 2022."
- "Moko, a name given by sportsmen to pheasants killed by mistake during September, before the pheasant-shooting comes in. They pull out their tails, and roundly assert that they are no pheasants at all, but mokos."
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Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more roundly (comparative)
most roundly (superlative)