sternly

Adverb

Meaning

In a stern manner.

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Examples

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden. Mark Twain

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. Ambrose Bierce

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs. David Guterson

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand... Cassandra Clare

The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed. Frederick Douglass

I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it. Patti Smith

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