Crossword-Solution: STERNLY 7 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Sternly adv. In a stern manner.

We have 32 clues for the answer “STERNLY”

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In a tough love manner 1 answer
Without relenting 1 answer
Without even cracking a smile, say 1 answer
With severity 1 answer
With firmness 1 answer
With austerity. 1 answer
With a serious face 1 answer
With a firm tone 1 answer
One way to reprimand 1 answer
One way to issue a warning 1 answer
One way to give a reprimand 1 answer
Lacking levity 1 answer
In an unyielding fashion 1 answer
In an exacting fashion 1 answer
In an austere way 1 answer
In a tough way 1 answer
In a strict manner 1 answer
In a serious manner 1 answer
In a no-nonsense manner 1 answer
In a heavy-handed manner 1 answer
How to give a reprimand 1 answer
How to deliver a reprimand 1 answer
How to deliver a rebuke 1 answer
How the riot act is read 1 answer
How some warnings are given 1 answer
How scoldings are given 1 answer
How many reprimands are issued 1 answer
Without a smile 2 answers
AN EXACTING INSTRUCTOR 10 answers
AN EXACTING JOB 10 answers
harshly 46 answers
Austere 64 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with STERNLY (5)

Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, “I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don’t go out to dinner to-night, and if I don’t go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, and if I don’t go to the office again, you and I starve, and our children will be flung into the streets.” Even then Mrs.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
And would that I might endure his agony as well as mine!” “Speak, woman!” said another voice, coldly and sternly, proceeding from the crowd about the scaffold, “Speak; and give your child a father!” “I will not speak!” answered Hester, turning pale as death, but responding to this voice, which she too surely recognised.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
This wounds me most (what can it less?) that Man, Man fallen, shall be restored, I never more.” To whom our Saviour sternly thus replied:— “Deservedly thou griev’st, composed of lies From the beginning, and in lies wilt end, Who boast’st release from Hell, and leave to come Into the Heaven of Heavens.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
And many a missionary, sternly fortified by his sense of duty, would not have been troubled by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The maiden lady herself, sternly inhospitable in her first purposes, soon began to feel that the door ought to be shoved back, and the rusty key be turned in the reluctant lock.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with STERNLY (3)

The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.
Dorothy L. Sayers The Mind of the Maker
She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.
Elizabeth von Arnim The Pastor's Wife
It is ironic-rouse the limpest adjective-that a government as spontaneously tyrannous and callous as ours should, over the years, have come yo care so much about our health as it endlessly tests and retests commercial drugs available in other lands while arresting those who take "hard" drugs on the potential ground that they are bad for the user's health. One is touched by their concern- touched and dubious. After all, these same compassionate guardians of our well-being have…
Gore Vidal Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 29 times in crossword archives (1960–2024).