doughty
adjective
steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
doughtily
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a word derived from
doughty.
Example Sentences
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Some hall of fame snubs are explicable – hats off to the website doughtily campaigning on behalf of R Kelly – and others suggest the voters may have strict musical tastes.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2018
West Ham spent much of the second half penned back defending their penalty area doughtily while their opponents played pinball around them.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2015
Many researchers cite Harvard’s probe as further proof of science’s self-correcting mechanisms, and praise students for doughtily standing up to an authority figure of Dr Hauser’s distinction.
From Economist ● Aug. 26, 2010
Skipper Shakib waits mournfully under the lid and defends doughtily.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2010
She had traveled with him so long and so doughtily that he had never been able to form any anticipative picture of himself without her.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
