Meaning of hotly in English

hotly

adverb

/ˈhɒt.li/ us

/ˈhɑːt.li/

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in an angry or excited way:

hotly deny She hotly denied having taken the money.

hotly dispute His lawyers hotly dispute those allegations.

hotly debated The cost of healthcare has been a hotly debated issue here for decades.

closely and with determination:

hotly pursued He ran down the street, hotly pursued by two police officers.

hotly contested a hotly contested election

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hotly

adverb

/ˈhɑt·li/

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in an angry and excited way:

She hotly denied having taken the money.

The race for district leader was hotly contested (= the competition was strong).

(Definition of hotly from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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Many religious traditions condemn the practice, and it's hotly debated, including by disabled activists who oppose it.

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The policing of the metropolis was being hotly debated at the end of the 1780s.

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The act of cross-cultural borrowing is a hotly contested dynamic in the eyes of cultural theorists.

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The historical timing of this union may have been hotly disputed but it was agreed that the immediate task was one of recovery and restoration.

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The question of the land's legal status was the main issue under study, although who collected the area's taxes was also a hotly contested point.

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The ethical import of this passage has been hotly contested, partially because it has not been considered for its lack of moral judgement.

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More hotly disputed than the concept of dictatorship, which is now generally accepted, is the totalitarianism paradigm.

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Any work that pushes hotly contested debates forwards will always draw critical responses.

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As with many hotly debated phenomena in political science, these have come in multiple or even contradictory versions.

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Their respective claims on the welfare state have been perceived as broadly legitimate, although hotly contested at the margins.

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Of course, exactly who ' the people' that ought to be directly represented were remained a hotly contested issue.

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The aetiology of these conditions has been hotly debated over the past 20 years.

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The issue is still hotly debated.

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More important still, the way of asking the question already provides a framework for assessing the impact of preferences on something as hotly debated as stem cell research on embryos.

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Apart from heralding freedoms of association, assembly, and the media, these multi-party contests in what may be called the ' interregnum ' were hotly fought and full of political interest.

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