briskly

[ brisk-lee ]

adverb

1. in a quick, active, or vigorous way:

   Health experts recommend walking briskly for at least 30 minutes a day.

   Faroese music seems to sell briskly in Iceland.

2. in a sharp and stimulating way:

   The wind was blowing briskly as we started out on our early morning hike.

3. in an abrupt or curt way:

   When we finally finished eating, the irritated guards briskly yanked away our trays and stormed out.

Word History and Origins

Origin of briskly¹

brisk ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Back in L.A., his career resumed briskly.

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Still, the earnestness — Ronan and Harris Dickinson, seen briefly as a kind neighbor-turned-soldier, are pros at that — decidedly outweighs the unavoidable sense that we’re on a briskly engineered studio tour of character-building pluck.

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But Trump got another big lucky break here, not from the district court — Tanya Chutkan is a no-nonsense federal judge who has moved the case briskly — but from the U.S.

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In the hours preceding the game, a team store staffer said, the shirts would sell briskly.

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“We can’t find a plumber — sorry,” the volunteer responded, walking briskly past.

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Related Words

• nimbly
• rapidly
• vigorously