Persistently is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERSISTENTLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In a persistent manner.
ADVERB:
• PERSISTENT, persisting, lasting
• in a persistent manner; continuously
• with persistence
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• existing for a long or longer than usual time or continuously; as retained beyond the usual period; continuing without change in function or structure; effective in the open for an appreciable time usually through slow volatilizing; degraded only slowly by the environment; remaining infective for a relatively long time in a vector after an initial period of incubation

Words related to PERSISTENTLY

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How to use PERSISTENTLY in a sentence

• Miss Martin stuck to her guns persistently and eventually pulled the match out of the fire, winning the next six games straight off and thus becoming Irish Champion for 1902.
• A majority of the citizens persistently sustained the constitutional Government.
• But it came to him presently that Boomfood was persistently coming in upon any topic he began.
• He had trouble with a luxuriant lock of it that persistently fell across his pale brow.
• The old man begged his pardon, but he quickly came back on tiptoe, and, half hidden by the cupboard door, he gazed persistently at his son.
• Alberoni refused persistently to accede to the great coalition brought about by Dubois.
• The relatives and friends of the deceased charged John Brown and his band with these murders, which the relatives and friends of Brown persistently denied.
• The stakes, of course, were small, but he kept at it persistently until he had lost five pesos, when, with forcible words, he gave up.
• For two weeks past he had sought her society eagerly and persistently.
• But many monasteries persistently refused to accept these reforms.
• He has persistently refused to make any profit out of it, and declined to accept a sum which some enthusiasts collected as a testimonial to his disinterested work.
• But if it continues to seem persistently unnatural, I think we are going downward.
• Persistently you have sought my life in various ways, first indirectly and at last directly.
• When these conditions are fulfilled, it is fitting neither persistently to condemn nor to approve, but rather to appeal to the church.
• She did not see things by rule and she persistently represented them as she saw them.
• Her brother Joaquin kept persistently by her side, and Dario thought it best not to approach her.
• At Tinglayan, instead of the usual cheerful crowd waiting to welcome us, we found only a few extremely sullen men and women, who held themselves persistently aloof.
• Persistently they adhered to the idea that the missing girl was in the lower woods.
• So she argued, and the more persistently because she felt that the argument was thin.
• We are a little country and you, a huge country, have persistently beaten us.
• With every national prejudice, she had stood persistently in the way of his reforms.
• He worked persistently at it, learning all the while, and improving with every rod.
• The words of the gospel in the familiar language of his country haunted him persistently.
• Leslie had started forward impatiently, with Lem persistently following in his wake.
• Some of them, I noticed, circled persistently around a large isolated boulder which rose aloft in the midst of the monotonous expanse of sandy shores.
• One of the Voices was gently and persistently applying cold and soothing applications to my forehead.

Similar words containing PERSISTENT without suffix ly

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