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ANGRILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With anger
Example:
he angrily denied the accusation
Classified under:
Pertainym:
angry (feeling or showing anger)
Context examples:
"We don't cheat in America, but you can, if you choose," said Jo angrily.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"Upon my word, sir," I cried, angrily, "you take very great liberties! I have never been so insulted in my life."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lucy bit her lip, and looked angrily at her sister.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“It is all one to me,” replied Thorpe rather angrily; and instantly turning his horse, they were on their way back to Bath.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But by this time we had all long ceased to pay any particular notice to the song; it was new, that night, to nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up for a moment quite angrily before he went on with his talk to old Taylor, the gardener, on a new cure for the rheumatics.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The peasant in the sheepskins, who had sat glum and silent all evening, had been so heated by his flagon of ale that he was talking loudly and angrily with clenched hands and flashing eyes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had never spoken so much at once to him in her life before, and never so angrily to any one; and when her speech was over, she trembled and blushed at her own daring.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The Colonel flushed angrily.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His guilt and his descent appear by your account to be the same, said Elizabeth angrily; for I have heard you accuse him of nothing worse than of being the son of Mr. Darcy's steward, and of that, I can assure you, he informed me himself.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Lizzie knew it for what it was, and her body tensed angrily.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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