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gamely

[ geym-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a game or plucky manner:

    They struggled gamely.



ˈgamely

/ ˈɡeɪmlɪ /

adverb

  1. in a brave or sporting manner


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gamely1

1860–65; game 1 (adj.) + -ly

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Example Sentences

Traffic was terrible, though, so only a few dozen people gamely remained to pick over the vegetable spread and drink beer.

De Blasio, making his first appearance on the show, gamely pushed back.

We needed him to be wary, absorbed, and a little bit gruff, and he gamely complied, thereby furthering his own self-made legend.

Transfixingly candid and gamely stepping up to the plate for a round of hardball, Lohan seemed to be answering yes.

Stewart gamely raised her own pocket-size camera and aimed it at the beast.

The old white horse struggled gamely after the half-breed's wiry animal, and McFann was compelled to wait only once or twice.

"Bassett had fought gamely," the Republican organ averred, to make more glorious the Honorable Isaac's victory.

He had returned home with his game leg behaving more gamely then usual and with his sound one full of new and painful kinks.

The drops of sweat stood thickly on his forehead; but he pulled himself together gamely.

The Kentucky thoroughbred, ridden by its owner, struggled gamely; and he and Warrior went along neck and neck.

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