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decidedly

[ dih-sahy-did-lee ]

adverb

  1. definitely or unambiguously; without qualification:

    The many reviews I’ve read of that book have been decidedly lukewarm.

  2. in a way that is free from hesitation or wavering; resolutely:

    The heightened tension is occasioned by suicide bombers who have decidedly chosen death over life.



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The trouble began last summer during the decidedly chilly press blitz for the much-anticipated Colleen Hoover adaptation of her best-selling novel.

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The international class struggle predicted by Karl Marx directly contradicted the Nazis' racial-nationalist and decidedly anti-egalitarian weltanschauung, which championed welfare only for healthy, virtuous and "useful" members of the master race.

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But he was decidedly against holding any officials accountable for what had occurred, preferring, as he so memorably put it, to “look forward, not backward.”

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Outside Detroit the next day, Sanders struck a decidedly different tone.

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As a result, the balance of theatrical power shifts decidedly to Blanche’s advantage.

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