squarely

Adverb

Meaning

In a square form or manner.

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Examples

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves. Arthur Miller

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? Otto Dix

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views. John Cheever

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. Michael Korda

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced. Douglas Adams

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. Harper Lee

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