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comparative more hotly, superlative most hotly
With great amounts of heat. examples
In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently. quotations examples
"You are really intolerable!" said I, hotly.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
The prospective staff redundancy that would ensue from adoption of the plan is, of course, one of the hotly controversial aspects of the proposals and the chief issue on which a three-day N.U.R. strike was threatened for May 14-16, a few days after this issue went to press.
1963 June, “News and Comment: The redundancy problem”, in Modern Railways, pages 362–363