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defiantly

/dih-fahy-uhnt-lee/US // dɪˈfaɪ ənt li //

蔑视地,傲慢地,挑衅地,挑衅性地

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : with daring or bold resistance to authority: In a fearless display, protesters chanted defiantly at police: "Come and shoot us with your tear gas!"

Examples

  • Wallace stood defiantly in the door, head thrown back, lips tightly compressed, and Katzenbach left.

  • The Silver Sisters post glamorous pictures of themselves tousling their shiny locks, defiantly rebranding granny hair as hot.

  • A Christian might say it goes back to Adam and Eve, who abused their God-given free will in defiantly eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

  • Digital health and micromobility is defiantly seeing unprecedented demand.

  • Ellen Morton replies defiantly, “Marie Kondo, you don’t know me!”

  • The mayor responded defiantly with a kind of military pageant that was truly bizarre for such a secretive organization.

  • But Kate has clung to her middle-class roots and middle-class ideas of child-rearing defiantly.

  • Sir Mark Sykes, a crusty diplomat who had colluded with the French to give them Damascus, was more defiantly a misogynist.

  • “I will answer injustice with justice,” she says defiantly, before crucifying the child-killers.

  • Traditionally worn by sixth-graders and jocks and those who lounge aggressively, the draw-stringed trouser is defiantly apathetic.

  • These resolves condemned the Stamp Act and defiantly acclaimed the rights which they considered essential to civil liberty.

  • She felt that her summary was precipitate, and drawing herself up defiantly looked hard at Mrs. Leslie.

  • There were the sounds of startled gasps behind the flashlight, then a gun barked defiantly.

  • She looked at Lowell defiantly as she asked the question, but he thought he detected a note of concern in her voice.

  • "This shall cost you dearly," said Young Glory, defiantly, as he faced the crowd.