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seriously
adverb as in not humorously
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all joking aside, cool it, cut the comedy, determinedly, down, fervently, for real, in all conscience, in all seriousness, in earnest, intently, purposefully, resolutely, sedately, simmer down, soberly, solemnly, sternly, straighten out, thoughtfully, with a straight face, with forethought, with sobriety, zealously
adverb as in dangerously, critically
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decidedly, deplorably, distressingly, harmfully, menacingly, perilously, precariously, quite, regrettably, threateningly
Example Sentences
Rowena MacDonald said Mr MacDonald made the threat weeks before allegedly shooting and seriously injuring the man, John MacKenzie, and his wife Fay.
But, more importantly, he’s seriously mistaken about how bad things can get.
He continues: “But what I loved, loved, loved is how Mike totally captured Charles’ journey from taking his spying very seriously to realizing, ‘No, no, no. There’s something human here that I need to tend to.’
Elizabeth Atherton, an opera singer, said she had “no confidence” that the Welsh or UK governments were taking the matter seriously enough and said morale within the sector was "at an all-time low".
At the time, the band said it "had to take each other's welfare as seriously as the music".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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