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Synonyms for avidly
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : av-id |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈæv ɪd |
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Définition 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
- 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
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