Word Finder - seriously

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(manner) In a serious or literal manner.

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He was hoping that we would take him seriously.

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Gravely; deeply; very much.

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That was a seriously unpleasant thing to say.

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Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation

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Now, seriously, why did you forget to feed the cat today?

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Used to call back to a previous point, either in disbelief or emphasis

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You baked 10 cakes. Seriously, why did you do that?

You can't seriously think I'm a suspect.

You seriously want me to go?

You seriously won't let me meet him?

I think it's time to seriously consider putting him down.

Seriously, I don't know how you stand the heat.

We need a tip line that will guarantee what we say is taken seriously and acted upon with haste.

In the middle of September he was seriously ill.

I prayed she'd take my warning seriously and maybe give us some helpful press in the bargin.

She was seriously disturbed at keeping secretes from Howie; perhaps more so than he was, doing the same thing.

There was certainly nothing here to hold him, and a little country hick would be the last female he would consider seriously.

I'm not taking you seriously.

You're hurt inside—maybe seriously.

Seriously; I haven't seen many down sides to it.

He had pulled through so many sharp attacks of his "vile influenza" and other lung disorders that he began to be seriously alarmed only three days before his death.

Army was seriously unwell, and though he had the assistance of Gen.

But seriously, Rhyn, no one bargains with Death and wins.

She met his gaze seriously.

Bern was in command and was seriously wounded in the last pitched battle of the war, fought there on the 9th of August.

I remained seriously concerned about the toll the sessions were exerting on him.

I don't understand what all you do, but he takes it very seriously.

She rolled her eyes, irritated that her brother hadn't taken his promise to her seriously.

He rarely spoke, and when he did, people rarely failed to take his words seriously.

Does no one take it seriously?

But she's taking hers much more seriously.

Seriously, what do you have to do?

Actually, he had talked to her, but she hadn't taken him seriously.

Nor was the virtual abolition of the cortes seriously felt at first, owing to the excellent internal administration of Pedro II.

No one I knew of had ever seriously considered the possibility that without any conflict, treaty, war, or even a coin toss, the Soviet Union would simply vote itself into nonexistence in 1991.

But it is to be remembered that Miss Keller has written many things in her autobiography for the fun of writing them, and the disillusion, which the writer of the editorial took seriously, is in great part humorous.

Isn't it? asked Natasha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears.

Natasha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, mainly because Denisov so delighted in her singing.

Hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair.

I take my responsibility to you and our children seriously.

Whether he had arranged things to work out this way or not, her resources had been cut seriously.

It doesn't seem as if we're taking this business of getting you elected very seriously.

How could you ever think you'd rule the underworld, if you didn't take it seriously?

These here genealogy folks take that stuff mighty seriously.

But when I get married, I intend to take my vows seriously.

She felt like a flower next to a tree and stared, hoping Elise didn't take his offer seriously.

He was left listening to a dial tone and beginning to seriously question their bizarre relationship.

He obviously took his role as head of the house seriously.

Seriously, you can do that?

When you're my age you'll wish you had taken his proposal of marriage more seriously.

I can show you horrible things to make you take this seriously.

Like, seriously, bit me, she said and showed him the two small scars.

Seriously, what happens if I kill him?

He was bitterly denounced by slaveholders and also by such non-slaveholders as disapproved of all antislavery agitation, and in January 1827 he was assaulted and seriously injured by a slave-trader, Austin Woolfolk, whom he had severely criticized in his paper.

Commerce was the source of Aegina's greatness, and her trade, which appears to have been principally with the Levant, must have suffered seriously from the war with Persia.

A part of the revenue of confiscated church lands was allotted to the maintenance of schools, and the question of national education was seriously taken in hand by the Commonwealth.

It is probably true to say that no one has ever set himself so seriously to imitate the life of Christ and to carry out so literally Christ's work in Christ's own way.