My three-year-old raised his chin defiantly and said, No! It was an accident. ❋ Unknown (2002)
"Eee-oo!" she called defiantly, and the gull, after a doubtful glance, went on its way, wondering, no doubt, what kind of a gull this was that behaved in such a peculiar manner. ❋ Blyton, Enid (1948)
The girl met McGeorge outside the house; he called defiantly in the face of an unrelenting, outspoken opposition. ❋ Various (1915)
Built a decade earlier by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, she is 390 metres long, painted orange and grey and wears her name defiantly, for she makes little attempt to evoke any of the qualities of grace and beauty for which goddesses are traditionally famed, being instead squat and 80,000 tonnes in weight, with a stern that bulges like an overstuffed cushion and a hold stacked high with more than a thousand variously coloured steel containers full of cargo, whose origins range from the factories of the Kobe corridor to the groves of the Atlas Mountains. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Waving his sword defiantly above his head, Chi-churog, First Rider of the Xi-Murogg, was galloping in pursuit, urging his nervous blindered mount onward while screaming defiance. ❋ Sugu Althomsons (2010)
"'Jore-e Blur-re, Jore-e Blur-re, willy-nilly, willy-nilly!' he calls defiantly, as if he did not like having to keep quiet all day, and meant to tell his name at last. ❋ Elliott Coues (1870)
It is only the inevitable consequence, only the logical result of the movement that today millions of proletarian women call defiantly and with self-confidence: Let us have suffrage! ... ❋ Unknown (2007)
This officer finding himself deserted by his men, waved his sword defiantly over his head and walked away as deliberately as on dress parade, while the sharpshooters were plowing up the dirt all around him, but all failed to bring him down. ❋ D. Augustus Dickert (N/A)
Carl stuck his head around the corner of the front door, called defiantly, "_Damn_ the other girls!" banged the door to, and we fled. ❋ Cornelia Stratton Parker (N/A)
There was something alike humiliating and exasperating in this implied advice from her, that we should tamely and unresistingly submit to a division of continent, bays, and rivers, according to terms defiantly and insultingly proposed by those who had a joint ownership with ourselves. ❋ Various (N/A)
Carl stuck his head around the corner of the front door, called defiantly, “Damn the other girls!” banged the door to, and we fled. ❋ Parker, Cornelia Stratton, 1885- (1919)
Before, however, they could get their active little mounts into their stride Frank and the young Emir were twenty yards ahead, the former resettling himself in his saddle after being nearly thrown, and the latter half turned, shaking his sword defiantly, seeing with malicious joy that his adversary was _hors de combat_, half lying upon the ground, while Frank's was limping after his horse, which stood shaking itself after recovering its feet. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Definitely" ≠ "defiantly" - hoping it was a spelling mistake, not a freudian slip!
Because of size constraints here, you can't see this photo at its true size, which is boldly, "defiantly" large. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The word 'defiantly' is making me wonder whether you're going someplace funny with this... or someplace preachy. ❋ Editorial Anonymous (2008)
The 127 Modderbee prison officials were dismissed during an illegal strike in July, after "defiantly" ignoring ultimatums to disengage and abide by dispute resolution procedures. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I'll wager, "defiantly," that if Alaska dogs have one supreme ambition, like that of every loyal small American boy to become President of the ❋ Esther Birdsall Darling (N/A)
I "-- defiantly --" I don't want to go to churches at all. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
