hotly

adverb hot·ly \ ˈhät-lē \

|Updated on: 2 Aug 2018

Definition of hotly

: in a hot manner

a hotly contested series

Recent Examples of hotly from the Web

The first extended public hearings were held in 1916, on the hotly contested nomination of Louis Brandeis who, following custom, refused to testify in person.

— jeffrey rosen, WSJ, "What We Learn from Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings," 13 July 2018
Other more hotly contested hypotheses suppose that stripes may help with predator avoidance or as visual cues for distinguishing zebras from one another, as individuals appear to be uniquely patterned.

— katherine j. wu, Smithsonian, "Settling a Heated Debate—Do Zebra Stripes Keep These Animals Cool?," 10 July 2018
During Warren's hotly contested Senate bid in Massachusetts in 2012, The Boston Herald uncovered a 1996 student newspaper article quoting a Harvard Law School spokesman who boasted that Warren, who was a professor, was Native American.

— NBC News, "Fact check: Trump wants Warren to prove her Native American heritage. Could she?," 6 July 2018
Failure to update registrations after moving is one factor that contributes to chronic low turnout, even in hotly contested presidential elections.

— jonathan lai, Philly.com, "Online voter registration in Pa., three years in: More than 1 in 5 voters register online," 12 July 2018
In a hotly contested battle, the carrier considered replacing its 60 E190 planes with Embraer’s upgraded E190-E2 model or the larger E195-E2.

— christopher jasper, The Seattle Times, "JetBlue places big order for newest Airbus A220 jet," 10 July 2018
The meeting between Trump and Putin will be hotly anticipated and closely watched.

— anton troianovski, Washington Post, "White House, Kremlin agree on time and place for Trump-Putin summit," 29 June 2018
The city has been hotly anticipating the Trump-Kim meeting.

— jonathan cheng, WSJ, "Trump and North Korea’s Kim Land in Singapore for Historic Summit," 10 June 2018
As the lead single for her hotly anticipated upcoming album, powerhouse pop singer Grande reintroduced herself with a song that wraps its core — an emotional, orchestral ballad with plenty of space for her voice to shine — with a club-worthy beat.

— raisa bruner, Time, "Best Songs of 2018 So Far," 1 June 2018

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