Lexic.us

Definition of Sharply

1. Adverb. In an aggressive manner. "She was being sharply questioned"

2. Adverb. In a well delineated manner. "The new style of Minoan pottery was sharply defined"

3. Adverb. Changing suddenly in direction and degree. "Her shoes had acutely pointed toes"

4. Adverb. Very suddenly and to a great degree. "Prices rose sharply"

Definition of Sharply

1. adv. In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely.

Definition of Sharply

1. Adverb. In a sharp manner; pertaining to precision. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sharply

1. in a sharp manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharply

sharpeneth sharpening sharpens sharper sharpers sharpest sharpfin sharpie sharpies sharping

sharpings sharpish sharpite sharpling sharplings sharply (current term) sharpness sharpnesses sharps sharpsaw

sharpshoot sharpshooter sharpshooters sharpshooting sharpshootings sharpster sharpsters sharptail sharptail mola sharptails

Literary usage of Sharply

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith ; 15 Unto the pure all things are pure : but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Leaves oblong, or broadly lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, petioled, sharply serrate with somewhat spreading teeth, or laciniate, ..."

3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"... while I was pressing Michel Agnolo with arguments he could not answer, he turned round sharply to Urbino, as though to ask him his opinion. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The ideal aggregate is broken, sharply angular and irregular stone, as this material mixes better with the matrix than rounded pebbles, minute particles of ..."

5. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"A view of business profits which distinguishes them sharply from wages, as arising solely in a dynamic state, 192 — Sec. 8. Another view, which lays ..."

6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"The cells in the main body are sharply defined, being separated from one another by distinct lines of demarcation. Near the margin of the gland it is not so ..."

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