hotly

adverb

hot·​ly ˈhät-lē How to pronounce hotly (audio)
: in a hot manner
a hotly contested series

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Inside her was the growing awareness that Sebastien had only been writing her, Dani, out of a sense of duty, all the while hotly suffering a much more grownup correspondence with the incredible Yvonne. Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025 But this area of climate science is hotly contested, with new studies supporting and knocking it down appearing each year. Andrew Freedman, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025 The new console has been hotly anticipated for years at this point; the original Nintendo Switch launched eight years ago in 2017. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025 In the upper chamber, Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-Ga.) first reelection bid will be expensive and hotly contested in a state that Trump has carried in two of the past three presidential election cycles. Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for hotly 

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hotly was before the 12th century

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“Hotly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hotly. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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