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demandingly

American  
[di-mand-ing-lee] / dɪˈmænd ɪŋ li /

adverb

  1. in a demanding way, tone, etc.; imperiously, forcefully, or urgently.


Other Word Forms

  • undemandingly adverb

Example Sentences

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Another phrase thrown around with increasing fervor in the pandemic era — demandingly, insistently, belligerently or maybe just hopefully — is “we have to live our lives!”

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

They need it, too: Kelli Barclay’s tap-driven dance routines are demandingly spectacular and endlessly resourceful.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2018

McCartney’s voice has long operated in a demandingly high range, and at 73, he had to push to reach some of the highest notes he wrote for himself all those years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2016

Though her alter ego saxophonist Jim Tomlinson and fine guitarist John Parricelli are on hand, there's perhaps not so much in this music for the more demandingly jazz-dependent.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010

At the end of the Twelfth and the beginning of the Thirteenth centuries this need became demandingly manifest, and the consequence was a movement that proved to be of great and far-reaching practical benevolence.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)