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keenly Adverb

— If you feel or want something keenly, you feel or want it very much. — If something is done keenly, it is done strongly.

keenly

— adverb in a keen and discriminating manner he was keenly aware of his own shortcomings

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sharply acutely intently poignantly much greatly fiercely earnestly very urgently strongly severely remarkably pointedly mighty highly heartily extremely especially wisely well vividly very much too much too tightly terribly tactfully sturdily studiously specifically specially sorely smartly sincerely signally shrewd sharp seriously seperately searchingly recklessly rattling quite pretty preciously precious positively passionately particularly

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Before I met you. I never felt very keenly one way or another about anything.

She said herself that before she met him, she'd never felt anything very keenly.

Why? Because it is at Christmas time, that want is most keenly felt.

I feel my own deficiencies too keenly to presume so far.

Your absence was keenly felt, Mr. Chekov.

Sit tight and listen keenly. while I play for you a brand-new musical biscuit from the Hilton's empire.

I listened keenly and with a critical ear to my parents' first spontaneous reactions.

I think what the prosecutor is trying to say to you is that. we would keenly like to have you reply specifically. to the accusation that you killed this boy.

State your business. - Your Majesty, we in the Naval Department. while being keenly aware of recent spirals in Defense expenditure.

It didn't matter how beautiful you were or how keenly he seemed interested the day before.

When he felt the obsession to keenly he took himself off until the poison had exhausted him.

Maybe if we felt any loss as keenly as for one close to us, human history would be less bloody.

The way that will make you the most keenly aware that you are a Saiyan!

Show me those keenly-honed reflexes. those catlike moves.

Why? - Nothing makes you feel your years so keenly as the sense of being alone.

Your absence was keenly felt.

Corabeth, sister and I feel keenly that pageantry is not called for this year.

Your Majesty, we in the Naval Department. while being keenly aware of recent spirals in Defense expenditure.

Now is the time you should train more strictly, hunt and patrol more keenly.

I look froward to him proving you wrong I anticipate it keenly. In fact, I'd stake my shirt on it.

Ah, he's still a boy, Your Majesty, but a keenly intelligent one. with a warm heart, sympathetic soul-- qualities, I believe, of a great king.

Louise, you may have noticed I am a keenly intuitive, highly observant person.

Keenly.

In a world economy where information is filtered by global media corporations keenly attuned to their powerful advertisers who will defend the publics right to know?

I have always been keenly interested in his experiments.

You know it was she who felt so keenly that we should meet.

Advertisers have found that the women of America are keenly interested in the type of soap they use.

Ever since Lady Glossop eloped with the conductor on the 73 omnibus, Sir Roderick has keenly missed the comforts of connubiality and has been eager to remarry.

If you put your jacket on, you would feel the cold less keenly.

You feel it keenly!

I'm not sure she feels things quite so keenly as Molly does. - But all in all, I think she's one in a hundred.

I think my keenly trained senses.

I am keenly aware of the interest That all members of this board have In the question of selecting a new artistic director.

I'm keenly interested in having some supper.

News and current affairs

The extraordinary reception of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows how keenly the consequences of the collapse of the left have been felt.

Yet I have to admit that I still could not suppress a tiny, keenly felt pleasure when Germany lost to Spain.

Everyone, everywhere is keenly aware of the power of our weapons.

But Turkish policymakers are keenly aware that the agreement may upend the Middle East's fragile balance of power.

They are more keenly aware that if they try to redistribute too much, they will simply drive away the factors of production: capital will flow elsewhere, and labor will likewise migrate.

And, on big global issues like climate change, organized crime, trade, and prevention of atrocities, the absence of the US as a policy catalyst and active negotiator will be quickly and keenly felt.

Saudi Arabia's rulers, as custodians of the Muslim faith's holiest places in Mecca and Medina, perhaps feel this threat most keenly.

Acute polarization is occurring everywhere, and it is here where the legacy of communist political culture is mostly keenly felt: an opponent is not someone with whom you argue or negotiate, but an enemy that you must destroy.

But the impact of America's planned troop withdrawals is felt most keenly in South Korea.

Iran has always been keenly aware of the multiple risks involved in crossing that red line.

It will also be a year of destiny for France, whose government is keenly aware that, without painful reforms, the country might be doomed; the only question that remains is whether it can implement them.

Emerging Arab leaders, from Islamists to re-invented former regime officials, are keenly aware of the need to improve their countries' economic prospects.

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