sternly

Peering over her glasses, the French judge glanced sternly across the cavernous underground courtroom towards a notorious figure seated in a glass cage.

He took me aside and said sternly, “You can’t pussyfoot it.”

It did not send any athletes to the Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, after the country shut itself off from the world even more sternly than usual due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

They secretly downloaded TikTok for a few weeks before getting caught and sternly lectured.

“We will respond sternly and strongly to any discriminatory measures taken against our companies.”