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seriously English

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seriously

You use seriously to ask if something is true. "I got up at 4:00 this morning." "Seriously?" If you take something seriously, you believe it. It's hard to take him seriously, when he's always laughing.

seriously

(= earnestly, in earnest) in a serious manner talking earnestly with his son she started studying snakes in earnest a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce (= badly, severely, gravely) to a severe or serious degree fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated badly injured a severely impaired heart is gravely ill was seriously ill

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Topics seriously topics

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Simple sentences

He was seriously injured in the car accident.
It's not that I seriously like him. I just find him very attractive.
Seriously, people are so dumb.
I seriously doubt it.
Tom might be seriously injured.
Tom is taking this seriously.
It seems you are not taking me seriously.
I'm seriously considering it.
I should've taken that more seriously.
Are you making fun of me or do you seriously think so?
You're taking it too seriously.
It's a wonderful trait to be able to not take yourself seriously.
Tom is said to be seriously ill.
Tom takes all the measures very seriously.
Seriously though, episode 21 made me almost cry while laughing.
Spenser's sarcastic and joking remarks are often misinterpreted as signs of ambivalence and often taken too seriously.
My pet dog was seriously ill.
I didn't consider the subject seriously.
Take things a little more seriously.
Don't take it seriously.
Don't take me seriously. I'm only joking.
She might be seriously ill.
So, players were often seriously injured and sometimes even killed in these rough games.
Don't take things so seriously.
Don't take things too seriously.
I take my health seriously.
His car was seriously damaged.
We have to take him to the hospital immediately; he is seriously injured!
Oh, sure, I studied English in my school days. But it wasn't until two or three years ago that I really started taking it seriously.
We talked seriously to one another.

Movie subtitles

Are you seriously going to kill me, Curel?
And I think the only way to decide this will be with some very seriously thought-out process.
I didn't get it, seriously.
You are seriously.
Seriously please.
I didn't expect no one would come to claim any of them, seriously.
These people, seriously!
Seriously, our kung fu skills are way past overkill.
We are not going to seriously go through with this, are we?
Seriously, are you. Are you hearing this?
Are you seriously talking about pie right now?
Seriously, seriously, seriously.
His mother, the holy and revered Zohra, is seriously ill.
Seriously, I don't know how you did that, but thank you.
Seriously, though.
Huh? Come on, seriously.
Are you seriously still doubting me?
You're not seriously thinking of killing yourself, are you?
Except she's seriously messed up.
Are you seriously even saying this right now?
Seriously? You've got a lot of nerve after all that time you spent trying to kill us!
Seriously?
We Brits take our friendships very seriously, you know.
I'd like the jury to take into account that this information about my client was taken from a few neighbors and should not be taken seriously.
Your problem is you don't take these social affairs seriously.
He takes things seriously. You can't ask a simple question.
Seriously, we can't talk without the mention of a ghost.
I'm seriously blinded by her brightness.
But CEO seriously didn't give me any discount.
Seriously, are you.
Seriously, are you busy right now?
Seriously, I-I want to make amends to Valencia, and this is like the opposite of that.

News and current affairs

When the idea was first floated some 10 years ago, expansion into the Baltics was taken seriously by few people.
This is how citizens can be taken - and take themselves - seriously as documenters and investigators of our common situation.
This is clearly not true for those who suffer from migraines or epileptic seizures because of the new bulbs, or for those who are seriously worried about mercury, or for those who have other reasons for preferring incandescent bulbs.
It is high time that European leaders take this promise seriously.
The legal system, schools, and the media could bring change, but no official entity takes the problem seriously enough to initiate effective action.
Taking the lectures seriously - even adopting tight budget frameworks - can be counterproductive.
Let's hope that when the G-20 leaders meet later this year, they decide to take the problem seriously instead of tabling discussion for a decade or two until the next crisis is upon us.
Small wonder: the American public is fiercely resistant to anything that seriously forces them to compromise on their energy-burning, gas-guzzling lifestyle.
But no one ever seriously thought that the US would allow Citigroup and Bank of America, to name just two, to fail.
These facts obviously need to be taken seriously, but their implications for US foreign policy in the Middle East should not be too hastily drawn.
After the l930's and l940's one would have hoped that European countries would take threats emanating from a kind of language and sentiment expressed by Haider and his party more seriously.
If they take their fiscal deficits (and a potential monetization of these deficits) seriously and raise taxes, reduce spending, and mop up excess liquidity, they could undermine the already weak recovery.
Argentina was seriously mismanaged from the 1940s to the early 1990s.
Lagarde was apologizing for the IMF's poor forecasting of the United Kingdom's recent economic performance, and, more seriously, for the Fund's longer-standing criticism of the fiscal austerity pursued by Prime Minister David Cameron's government.
With household wealth seriously damaged by the housing crash and other asset-price declines, pensions and retirement provisions are in disarray.
Those negotiations should have begun seriously last year, but the war in Georgia intervened to put them on hold.
Until Afghanistan's leaders begin to address this problem seriously, our country will continue to bear the scar of violence against women on its face.
When Arafat was seriously ill in 2003, Palestinians were near panic.
For most of us, unless we remain seriously overweight in financial stocks, this may not be a bad prospect.
It is time for Greece, other eurozone members, and the European Commission to start thinking seriously about that option.
Such attacks on immigration might offer some instant political gratification, but their net result is to cleave societies whose cohesion is already seriously challenged by the economic crisis.
President Chirac's self-appointed role as an expert in diplomatic good behavior cannot be taken seriously, even by those of us who know (and love) France.
With the US also economically weakened and facing a presidential election, America's leadership ability would be seriously constricted.
First, the five main nuclear-weapon states have not taken seriously their NPT obligation to work for nuclear disarmament.
Given energy-security concerns, any Azerbaijani conflict would also seriously affect Europe.

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