imperiously
English
Etymology
imperious + -ly
Adverb
imperiously (comparative more imperiously, superlative most imperiously)
- In an imperious manner; in the style of an emperor.
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72:
- Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us.
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- In a way that brooks no refusal; commandingly.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12:
- Something up above was calling him imperiously[.]
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Translations
in an imperious manner
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References
- imperiously in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- imperiously in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913