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HOTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a heated manner
Example:
the children were arguing hotly
Synonyms:
heatedly; hotly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)
Context examples:
“I am surprised, Captain Bulkeley,” Cochran retorted hotly, “that you should venture to couple the names of privateersman and King’s officer.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here Jonathan interrupted him hotly:—Do you mean to say, Professor Van Helsing, that you would bring Mina, in her sad case and tainted as she is with that devil's illness, right into the jaws of his death-trap? Not for the world! Not for Heaven or Hell!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He felt a shock himself, and a blush of embarrassment shone faintly on his sunburned cheeks, though to him it burned as hotly as when his cheeks had been exposed to the open furnace-door in the fire-room.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I now felt sure that the poor fellow had gone crazy in his solitude, and I suppose I must have shown the feeling in my face, for he repeated the statement hotly: Rich! Rich! I says.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“His majesty here will doubtless order that you have this dish hotly seasoned when we are all safely in Castile.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was easy to see that he was a quick, irascible, high-blooded man, for he was talking hotly about his grievances with a flush of anger upon his freckled cheeks.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
