from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adverb In a commanding manner.
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adverb In a commanding fashion
Etymologies
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commanding + -ly
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Examples
The left-armer was treated with respect and then contemptuously, first lofted easily on to the brick wall that runs in front of the pavilion, and then, even more commandingly, over the pavilion roof and into the garden of Hughes Hall.
Soledad O'Brien, who, as always, adroitly and commandingly hosts the special, said at a breakfast for bloggers last week that it's the kind of place genuinely loved by its residents.
Shooting aboard ship means giving the audience a chance to see colorful men who know how to do skillful things, and who do them with machines that fill the screen commandingly.
Christopher Purves, right, as Mephistopheles is the master of ceremonies, by turns suave, demonic or caricature, and commandingly incisve in everything he sings.
The roosters that crowd the front seat of a beat-up car above, one perched commandingly on the wheel, share the weary stoicism of many of the human subjects he captures in intimate profiles.
Doctor Emory glanced warningly to Doctor Masters, and Doctor Masters glanced authoritatively at the sergeant who glanced commandingly at his two policemen.
Princess Dragomiroff says commandingly to a restaurant attendant: You will be sufficiently amiable to place in my compartment a bottle of mineral water and a large glass of orange juice.
As portrayed commandingly by Ramirez (no relation to the original, though both share a family name and country of birth, Venezuela), evil is just one part of the picture.
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