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Example sentences for "flatly"

Lexicographically close words:
flatfoot; flatiron; flatirons; flatlands; flatlie; flatness; flats; flatt; flatte; flatted
  1. His English barons, to their credit, flatly refused either to entrap the son of their master or to abandon the city at a time so critical.

  2. And whosoever tells him that the score is not wiped out, lies, and contradicts flatly God's holy word.

  3. Whosoever tells him that they are wiped out, he too lies, and contradicts flatly God's holy word.

  4. They flatly refused to surrender their prisoners to any paltry bailiff.

  5. But, my dear Marquis," said the King, "your two positions are flatly contradictory.

  6. The Knapps, however, proved disobliging and flatly declined to move a second time.

  7. Mr. Melrose had flatly refused even to see his wife and daughter whom he had left in poverty and starvation for twenty years.

  8. Melrose was asked to compensate, and flatly declined.

  9. Frequently he holds views which run completely counter to present-day psychology, and on several occasions he flatly contradicts what he has with equal emphasis maintained in other contexts.

  10. What is much more serious, is that Kant flatly contradicts himself in almost every chapter; and that there is hardly a technical term which is not employed by him in a variety of different and conflicting senses.

  11. In other words, Janus has completely and flatly denied the primacy.

  12. Can you not prove an alibi, or can you not bring witnesses who were there in the same house that day, who would flatly and directly contradict what your remorseless enemy has said against you?

  13. For there was not one of those dogmas which had not been flatly and directly denied by some Holy Fathers.

  14. More than once she was upon the point of attempting another visit to Snare Lake, and in all probability would have done so had not Big Lena flatly refused to accompany her under any circumstances whatever.

  15. But while displaying such brilliant ability, the Duke of Elchingen would take no orders from his superior, and when Massena told him to cover Almeida and Ciudad Rodrigo, he flatly refused and marched off in the opposite direction.

  16. Among other unpleasantnesses the commander of Paris found himself on one occasion forced to place a general officer in the Abbaye, the civil prison, for flatly refusing to obey orders.

  17. If it has colic, you put hot things on its stomach," said Susan, rather feebly and flatly for her.

  18. But it seems that he was in Carter Flagg's store last night and he heard his Uncle Norman flatly declaring that Jem Blythe would never come back and that the Ingleside folk might as well give up hoping he would.

  19. We Junior Reds canvassed diligently and landed several tough old customers who had at first flatly refused to invest.

  20. Florence wore her light brown hair brushed flatly back and braided in a single plait, at a time when pompadours were six inches high and braids hung in pairs.

  21. It was never approved by the Holy See, and when it was presented to Innocent XI under still another form, namely to prevent the reception of novices in Eastern Asia, he flatly rejected it.

  22. He contented himself with the facts before him and sought little assistance from authorities; nor did he fear to deduce theoretical conclusions from his own observations which flatly contradicted other authorities.

  23. At the first suggestion of a marriage with Volterra's son Sabina flatly refused to entertain the thought.

  24. He told what he had done; but with the loyalty to friends, stimulated by the fear of vengeance, which belongs to the Roman working man, he flatly denied that he had an accomplice.

  25. She had flatly refused to return to the convent, and if the Honourable Emily was petulant, her daughter was merciless.

  26. Louie asked flatly what Weston got, and was told one hundred pounds a year.

  27. And she was not so rapt but that she remembered telling him, flatly and with another happy and laughing and triumphant look: "You can't prevent it!

  28. The manager ordered her in no very gentle tone to go back, and Georgia flatly and peremptorily refused.

  29. Ledenberg on the other hand flatly accused him of cowardice.

  30. Moreover he is directing every effort to maintaining this state of things so flatly opposed to all his beliefs.

  31. He knows that the prosecutor, who ought to have come, flatly refused to have anything to do with it, because he regarded it as disgraceful.

  32. Furious at the turn of affairs, Decatur flatly refused to obey the constable's summons.

  33. These were the times when the highest personages in the realm lived openly in ways which were flatly contrary to the law of God, and no man rebuked them.

  34. His views are flatly opposed to the customs and prejudices of his time.

  35. The bread of the Church was eaten by men who flatly contradicted her Articles.

  36. The pulpits of many churches were flatly refused to him.

  37. But Mavis flatly refused to have any hired person coming between her and the transcendent joy of her life.

  38. And he thought of how wan and limp and sad she looked early this morning, when he had again sent her out of his office and flatly refused to let her do any more writing or tidying for him.

  39. Well, he must go down to them and flatly deny whatever Norah said.

  40. Ariga, the Constitutional expert, when called in at the last moment for advice by President Li Yuan-hung had flatly contradicted Dr.

  41. A bloody part, flatly 'gainst law of arms!

  42. This is flatly contradicted in a pamphlet by F.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flatly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    completely; evenly; flat; flush; lengthwise; level; smooth; smoothly