Antonyms for avidly

Grammar : Adv

Spell : av-id

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæv ɪd

Definition of avidly

Origin : 1769, from French avide (15c.), from Latin avidus "longing eagerly, desirous, greedy," from avere "to desire eagerly." Also in part a back-formation from avidity. Related: Avidly.

As in wildly : adv enthusiastically
As in zealously : adv in a zealous manner

Example sentences :

With wonderful quickness a crowd had collected, all avidly eager for a fight.
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

Then he was avidly busy in the pit, working as carefully as a fine jeweller.
Extract from : « The Planet Strappers » by Raymond Zinke Gallun

While she was avidly eating the soup she heard steps in the hall and a knock at the door.
Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann

Julia was avidly, yet resentfully, aware of his surreptitious admiration.
Extract from : « Narcissus » by Evelyn Scott

She had a strange delusion that one was avidly interested in ones schoolbooks.
Extract from : « Atlantic Narratives » by Mary Antin

Egholm had grabbed at him avidly and without ceremony, as a chance of work.
Extract from : « Egholm and his God » by Johannes Buchholtz

She longed for it too avidly, for the relief from thought, from torturing visions.
Extract from : « Ewing\'s Lady » by Harry Leon Wilson

He read on avidly, from one poem to another, lost in his discovery.
Extract from : « Mavericks » by William MacLeod Raine

Martin looked at them avidly, then objected with a surly frown.
Extract from : « The Lighted Match » by Charles Neville Buck

The driver was avidly curious about the area where supposedly no human being could survive.
Extract from : « Operation Terror » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins

Synonyms for avidly

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