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summarily

/suh-mair-uh-lee, suhm-er-uh-/US // səˈmɛər ə li, ˈsʌm ər ə- //

即刻,简而言之,草草了事,简要地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a prompt or direct manner; immediately; straightaway.
    • : without notice; precipitately: to be dismissed summarily from one's job.

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Examples

  • Nixon couldn’t summarily create a national speed limit, but he knew how to dangle the highway dollars as an incentive.

  • In a highly publicized episode in January 2020, Moms 4 Housing and the Oakland Community Land Trust reached an agreement with a major real estate company to buy a property the moms had previously occupied for months before being summarily evicted.

  • Nasrallah's non-statement on these cases suggests Hezbollah feels the charges cannot be summarily ignored.

  • The DISCLOSE Act was summarily executed via filibuster in the Senate last night.

  • That ended in 2009, when Baradar summarily kicked him off the Quetta Shura and stripped him of his others posts.

  • As a sign of his objection, he summarily withdrew his ambassador from Doha earlier this month.

  • In November 1990, forty-seven women drove in the Kingdom and were summarily arrested.

  • Thus summarily dismissed, Jack returned to the camp-fire in quest of the slumber which he needed.

  • After which he was bound and gagged and summarily left to lie by the roadside.

  • If the King had been a Richelieu, he would have dealt summarily with the nobles and rebellious mobs.

  • Now that he had been snatched so summarily from his hateful position on board the Olenia, his desire to leave her was not so keen.

  • Two of the officers, as guilty of flagrant breach of faith and other crimes, were summarily hung.