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Meaning of steelily | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

In a steely way.

Equivalents

Polski niezłomnie

Examples

“My aunt looked at her daughter; brilliant of complexion, coldly and steelily handsome at eighteenwhy should she not have admirers?”
“'Meat,' he said steelily. 'I was right. It was a bloody butcher's knife that bastard tried to rearrange me with.'”
“2016, Anne Fogarty, Chapter 1: ‘A World of Hotels and Gaols’, Paige Reynolds (editor), Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture, Wimbledon Publishing Company (Anthem Press), page 19, As she steelily lives through the death of Christy, she recognizes that she herself now moves irretrievably 'in a world of hotels and gaols' (145).”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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