Example sentences for: decidedly

How can you use “decidedly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Resentment is narrated, like Another City , by a grumpy writer who lives at the Chateau Marmont hotel; at the same time, Dunne himself appears as a character, as a columnist-novelist named Fawbus Kennedy who is variously called "the kind of nothing this culture has been moving toward for decades," a "third-rate middlebrow Depends ad," and a "pompous mediocrity of a type unprecedented and decidedly unwelcome in this kind of grave proceeding."

  • The magazine's redesign brings with it a new Web site and a slick, decidedly un-wonkish new look.

  • Several critics take Rushdie to task for what they see as his sloppiness: Michiko Kakutani calls the novel a "loose, baggy monster" and "a decidedly disappointing performance" (the New York Times ). A.O.

  • Despite its reputation, aikido is decidedly nonaggressive--it's about deflecting punches and immobilizing your attacker--and there was a mellow, pleasantly upbeat atmosphere to the class.

  • The biggest problem: The character is "so sad and helpless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few concede that the film is "amusing if uneven" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ), and Stephen Hunter gives the film a decidedly upbeat review: "The character works because Shannon so precisely gets the dank weirdness of the truly alone.


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