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weightily

adverb as in heavily

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But the author’s introduction to Zawahiri’s book — weightily titled “The Book and the Sultan: Agreement and Separation — Reflections on Political Corruption and its Effects on the History of Muslims” — is dated April 2021.

In the howling void of cynicism they create, they can tell people whatever lies they want and have them treated as weightily as the truth.

The movie opens weightily with an incoming train, well-dressed Jews disembarking with their belongings, and “Welcome to Sobibor!” blaring from loudspeakers as a call for skilled craftsmen leads some to believe they’re there to work.

The first time, he rises to vertical stance very weightily and slowly; he’s brisker on later occasions.

Wearing a hard hat and a fluorescent slicker, she traverses a London overlaid with smartphone detritus: emojis, message notifications, text balloons and, at the end, a giant map pin weightily stalking her.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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