daringly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]daringly (comparative more daringly, superlative most daringly)
- In a daring manner
- Synonyms: boldly, courageously, fearlessly, impudently
- 1903 February 4, “Humourist”, in The Sydney Mail, volume LXXV, number 2222, Sydney, N.S.W., page 278, column 1:
- “Here, waiter,” cried the Johnnie who had dejeunered daringly at 12, “take this bill to the manager and tell him it’s an imposition. Why, you’ve charged more for one poached egg on toast than for an entire portion of those eggs that you scramble.”
- 2013, Margaret Leroy, The English Girl, →ISBN:
- The corridor stinks of sweat and cigarette smoke, and I daringly open the window a little. The freshest air floats in, smelling of sappy grasses, the delicate pollens of wild flowers, the resins of the pine forests; hinting at the chill blue scent of distant snows.
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[edit]References
[edit]- daringly in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “daringly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.