Definition of "toughly" [tough•ly]

• In a tough manner (adjective)

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• "Lafeu, as it happens, is expressing himself in prose: the kind of toughly, densely-argued prose that Hamlet uses when he gets down to bedrock."
• "And as a veteran of the browser wars, she knew that every point of market share was as toughly contested as a football goal-line stand."
• "Vuturo toughly cross-examined arresting officers demanding they tell in detail what they saw and what they did."