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angrily

US/ˈæŋ.ɡɹə.li/
adverbA2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,255 of 15,258neutral

Angrily means in a way that shows anger. Shout angrily, angrily denied it, gesture angrily.

It is a favourite of newspapers, where a politician angrily denied something rather than simply denying it. The adverb reports how a thing was done rather than what was felt, which is a distinction worth keeping.

Definitions of angrily

  1. 1adverbangrilyIn a way that shows anger.A2+

    “"Get out of my kitchen!" she shouted angrily.”

angrily is a manner.

Where it comes from

From angry plus -ly, with angry from Old Norse angr, grief or trouble.

  1. Middle English

    angrily

  2. English, today

    angrily

From Middle English angrily, equivalent to angry + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

angrily in the wild

  • After several minutes of silence, he yells angrily at the camera until a production assistant informs him that they have received $700.

    God's Angry Man

  • The song describes how he angrily deals with several individuals to identify "the real me".

    The Real Me (song)

  • "song that speaks loudly and angrily") is a Hawaiian hip hop genre that fuses rap with lyrics in the Hawaiian language, Hawaiian Pidgin, or both.

    Nā mele paleoleo

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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