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ruggedly en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English ruggedli, ruggidly, equivalent to rugged + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a rugged manner.
   • It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features. 1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I:

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