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Example sentences for "decidedly"

Lexicographically close words:
decet; deceyued; decia; decide; decided; decides; deciding; decidua; deciduous; decima
  1. While there is most decidedly such a thing as the inheritance of a tendency to or lack of resistance to a disease, it is not the result of incidence of the disease on the parent.

  2. Nevertheless, the effects of the treatment are most decidedly indicated by the type of offspring to which they give rise, whether they are mated together or with normal individuals.

  3. By moving away, it appears to us, they did very decidedly affect the future history of Hopetown.

  4. The number of unskilled workers coming in at the present time is sufficient to check decidedly the normal tendency toward an improved standard of living in many lines of industry," in the opinion of J.

  5. Her face was decidedly handsome, and her person exquisitely proportioned.

  6. These belong, as of course was to be expected, to the decidedly small form of Australia, Java, Celebes, etc.

  7. The adult [Female] decidedly grayer less brownish above--deep neutral gray (the upper parts in L.

  8. On the contrary, he was decidedly an ugly dog.

  9. The expression of her face was decidedly proud--too proud to be altogether agreeable.

  10. Mildred Calverley is decidedly in the way.

  11. A fine-looking young man, between twenty and thirty, and having decidedly a military air, but a stranger to them both.

  12. No one attempted to interfere; and when Romney was released, he made himself scarce as soon as he could; perceiving, from the observations that reached his ears, that the feeling of the bystanders was decidedly against him.

  13. On going over to Brackley next morning, Mrs. Calver-ley found Mildred much better, and decidedly out of danger.

  14. There were one or two trips decidedly outside that ten-mile limit, including an all day sail up the lake, stopping for the night at a hotel on the New York shore and returning by the next day's boat.

  15. From around the corner of the house at that moment peeped a small freckled face, the owner of which was decidedly very desirous of joining that trip.

  16. It is one of the most entertaining, and decidedly one of the best juveniles that have issued from the prolific press of this city.

  17. In other words, they leaned decidedly toward "state socialism" and expected to secure their ends by supporting the Democratic party, historically the party of individualism, and laissez faire.

  18. In Ohio the settlers of middle- state origin were decidedly more numerous than those from the south, and New England's share was distinctly smaller than that of the south.

  19. At first decidedly hostile, King's final adhesion was given to him, not out of personal regard, but because he believed that the public should be aroused against "longer submission to a Southern Master.

  20. Johnston was, however, decidedly opposed to the movement to the Peninsula, declaring it untenable, and urging views as to the requirements of the situation, which competent criticism has repeatedly commended.

  21. The impulse and in general the form he derived from Heraclides and Menippus; but his was a nature too individual and too decidedly Roman not to keep his imitative creations essentially independent and national.

  22. As a poet he attached himself decidedly to Ennius and thereby to the classical Greek literature.

  23. When Caesar (i, 51) mentions Marcomani among the peoples fighting in the army of Ariovistus, he may in this instance have misunderstood a merely appellative designation, just as he has decidedly done in the case of the Suebi.

  24. It was folly under such circumstances to let the matter come to the decision of arms; for these had already decidedly irrevocably.

  25. As our traditional accounts stand, the existence of such a law or resolution of the senate must be decidedly called in question; but doubtless it remains possible that Caesar intended the issue of such a decree.

  26. But public opinion as shown by the press is so decidedly against them, that Ohio inflationists now begin to desert their own platform.

  27. My opinion is decidedly against yielding a hair's breadth.

  28. His wife was decidedly tart in her retort that he ought to be thankful for the loyalty that enabled her to put up with all the privations of the past.

  29. The process is found to be perfectly practicable, and decidedly economical.

  30. Here the principle of natural defence is most decidedly annihilated.

  31. Provence after having completely sacked it, nor whether to poison a dauphin is to steal him; but these bad lines decidedly show that the poisoning of the dauphin Francis by Charles V.

  32. The more sublime such an idea, the more decidedly is it secretly rejected by human obstinacy.

  33. The right-hand or western gully is very steep, and having often quite a stream in it, is then decidedly hard, and requires considerable care in winter.

  34. The lofty pitch at the foot of the eastern gully is decidedly hard.

  35. Their prospects now were decidedly discouraging, for death stared them in the face.

  36. The battle was a decidedly severe one, the loss on each side being heavy in proportion to the number of troops engaged.

  37. An injury to any delicate nerve would decidedly be a cause of tetanus.

  38. The others were all decidedly traumatic cases.

  39. It is rumored that our Uncle Charley keeps a flourishing colored boarding-house in the town, from what is decidedly more than the crumbs that fall from his master's table.

  40. Eden said decidedly that he couldn't take both of them.

  41. He is a great name with all the young men, and he is decidedly an influence in art.

  42. I asked her if she was awake at the time, and she replied most decidedly in the affirmative; and upon my inquiring the time of the occurrence, she replied about one o'clock in the morning.

  43. This conversation lasted several minutes and was decidedly animated.

  44. Comparison with a solid stick of timber of like weight and substance will show that an equal length of bamboo is decidedly preferable.

  45. In maples these leaves are decidedly narrower than those growing from branches in the usual way, and they often have a reddish tinge.

  46. I am decidedly for the simplest and least disguised, though Robin is for the snail, and Angel, I believe, for that highly suitable Watteau scene.

  47. That wretched man betted--' Mr. Fulmort kindly but decidedly checked her.

  48. No,' decidedly stated Clement; 'they told me they should wait till Monday.

  49. Decidedly I behaved like a girl last night.

  50. Decidedly he is alcoholic--that sees itself,' she proceeded.

  51. There ought to be no difficulty in distinguishing this stamp from its mates of the same denomination, for while the backs of the rest present a white surface, in this case the back or paper is of a decidedly purplish hue.

  52. The operation of the department was greatly extended, and last, but most decidedly not least, was the introduction of postage stamps.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decidedly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolutely; actually; assuredly; certainly; clearly; decidedly; definitely; degree; distinctly; earnestly; easily; emphatically; firmly; forsooth; highly; indeed; indubitably; manifestly; noticeably; obviously; once; patently; persistently; positively; quite; really; resolutely; seriously; staunchly; steadily; surely; terribly; truly; undeniably; verily; very; visibly