ROUNDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roundly mean? 

• ROUNDLY (adverb)
  The adverb ROUNDLY has 2 senses:

1. in a round manner

2. in a blunt direct manner

  Familiarity information: ROUNDLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUNDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a round manner

Context example:

she was roundly slim

Pertainym:

round (having the shape or form of a circle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a blunt direct manner

Synonyms:

bluffly; bluntly; brusquely; flat out; roundly

Context example:

he was criticized roundly

 Context examples 

The whole conversation ran on the breakfast, which one and all abused roundly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But she proceeded to punish him roundly, until he gave over all attempts at placation, and whirled in a circle, his head away from her, his shoulders receiving the punishment of her teeth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The wind blew freshly from the east, with a very keen edge to it; and the great sail bellied roundly out, laying the vessel over until the water hissed beneath her lee bulwarks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first night in camp, Joe, the sour one, was punished roundly—a thing that Spitz had never succeeded in doing.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He was accused of having a delightful voice, and a perfect knowledge of music; which was properly denied; and that he knew nothing of the matter, and had no voice at all, roundly asserted.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Silver was roundly accused of playing double—of trying to make a separate peace for himself, of sacrificing the interests of his accomplices and victims, and, in one word, of the identical, exact thing that he was doing.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then tell me so roundly and sharply—don't spare me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)