aggressively

English

Etymology

aggressive +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

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Adverb

aggressively (comparative more aggressively, superlative most aggressively)

1. In an aggressive manner.
   • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎^[1]:

     Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.

Derived terms

• hyperaggressively
• passive-aggressively

Related terms

• aggress
• aggression

Translations

in an aggressive manner

• Belarusian: агрэсі́ўна (ahresíŭna)
• Catalan: agressivament (ca)
• Czech: agresivně, útočně
• Dutch: agressief (nl)
• Finnish: aggressiivisesti (fi)
• French: agressivement (fr)
• Hungarian: erőszakosan (hu)
• Italian: aggressivamente (it)
• Japanese: 攻撃的に (ja) (こうげきてきに, kōgekiteki ni), 侵略的に (しんりゃくてきに, shinryakuteki ni), 積極的に (ja) (せっきょくてきに, sekkyokuteki ni)
• Polish: agresywnie (pl)
• Portuguese: agressivamente (pt)
• Romanian: agresiv (ro)
• Russian: агресси́вно (ru) (agressívno)
• Spanish: agresivamente (es)
• Turkish: agresif bir şekilde, agresif (tr)
• Ukrainian: агреси́вно (uk) (ahresývno)