Definition of "pluckily" []

• In a plucky manner. (adverb)

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• "The NYT is amazed that the 3 women councillors "pluckily" stuck with it, "bright and alert to the very end.""
• "One of the reasons why the debate about this year's Hugos has been so ferocious and (at times) ill-tempered is because while there are no pluckily ambitious outsiders to root for (such as Watts 'Blindsight in 2007 or McDonald's Brazyl in 2008), the list is also ignoring breakthrough genre successes such as Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K. Hamilton."
• "Often the thrill of reading is to watch irrational people impose their emotional will on other characters, who must pluckily work to wriggle out from underneath it."