roundly

Etymology

From Middle English roundly, roundely, roundliche, equivalent to round + -ly.

adv

  1. Circularly.
  2. Utterly or thoroughly.
    When, over in the east, General Valentine Baker led his force of four thousand irregulars against Osman Digna, he was roundly thrashed. 1974, Richard Garrett, General Gordon, page 203
    A few short years ago, Musk was roundly mocked as a crazy con artist on the verge of going broke. Now this shy South African with Asperger’s syndrome, who escaped a brutal childhood and overcame personal tragedy, bends governments and industry to the force of his ambition. December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine
  3. Boldly; openly.
    Moko, a name given by sportsmen to pheasants killed by mistake during September, before the pheasant-shooting comes in. They pull out their tails, and roundly assert that they are no pheasants at all, but mokos. 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
  4. Briskly.
  5. Generally.

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