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[ adverb ] in a grave and sober manner

Synonyms

gravely staidly

Examples

"he walked soberly toward the altar"

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

His addle-brained knight-errant , self appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke , is , as Cervantes no_doubt intended , a gaunt but gracious symbol of good , moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics , hypocrites and rogues .

Related terms

grave grave sedate grave sedate

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