defiantly
with daring or bold resistance to authority: In a fearless display, protesters chanted defiantly at police: "Come and shoot us with your tear gas!"
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Origin of defiantly
1Other words from defiantly
- 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
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How to use defiantly in a sentence
Wallace stood defiantly in the door, head thrown back, lips tightly compressed, and Katzenbach left.
How Robert F. Kennedy Shaped His Brother's Response to Civil Rights | Patricia Sullivan | August 11, 2021 | TimeThe Silver Sisters post glamorous pictures of themselves tousling their shiny locks, defiantly rebranding granny hair as hot.
Some young women embraced their gray hair during the pandemic. They might not go back. | Maura Judkis | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostA 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.
Do We Have Free Will? Maybe It Doesn't Matter - Facts So Romantic | Jim Davies | April 7, 2021 | NautilusDigital health and micromobility is defiantly seeing unprecedented demand.
8 investors discuss Stockholm’s maturing startup ecosystem | Mike Butcher | February 19, 2021 | TechCrunchEllen Morton replies defiantly, “Marie Kondo, you don’t know me!”
Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 | Ron Charles | January 26, 2021 | Washington Post
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.
Game of Thrones’ ‘Oathkeeper’: Joffrey’s Killer Revealed, White Walkers, and A New Jaime Lannister | Marlow Stern | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTraditionally worn by sixth-graders and jocks and those who lounge aggressively, the draw-stringed trouser is defiantly apathetic.
NBA Players Are Wearing Sweatpants Again, but Now They Cost $550 | Sujay Kumar | November 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThese resolves condemned the Stamp Act and defiantly acclaimed the rights which they considered essential to civil liberty.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyShe felt that her summary was precipitate, and drawing herself up defiantly looked hard at Mrs. Leslie.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThere 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.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman"This shall cost you dearly," said Young Glory, defiantly, as he faced the crowd.
Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser | Walter Fenton Mott
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