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[ adverb ] in an energetic manner

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

On Election_Day - November 4 - he energetically marshalled his force of bludgeon men , bribers , and experts in forging repeat votes .

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

He , McBride , would be cited as in the wrong , and he , Lord , would go scot-free , an officer who had only done his duty , though perhaps too energetically .

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energetic energetic

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