sternly

“I think there needs to be a more robust Democratic Party, and I don't think all these sternly worded letters get it done,” he said, adding.

"Nothing else, no rank or anything," Kit says sternly.

"Yes, we used to see him all the time when he came here," he said, interrupting himself to sternly invite tourists to put their phones away or cover their shoulders.

Also on Thursday, a congressional committee on education that has focused its ire on elite schools it believes to have failed to protect Jewish students sent a sternly worded letter to Pomona College in Claremont.

You’ve probably taken antibiotics for an infection and been told very sternly to finish the entire bottle of medication, even if you feel better after just a few days.