GAMELY Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

gamely

adverb

Definition of gamely next

as in valiantly

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Recent Examples of gamely The crew gamely crawled onto the porch, which was pitching a bit, leading a reporter to ask Saturday why the Navy didn’t simply put the astronauts into a boat and quickly transport them to the Murtha. —

Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026 Barkin, who was dating Levinson at the time of the film’s production, gamely strives to anchor the odd, histrionic film with her performance and wrings real pathos out of Lynn’s brittle and wounded demeanor. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026 Barcelona battled gamely with 10 men in the second half but Atletico will be the favourites to reach the competition’s semi-finals when these two teams renew hostilities at the Metropolitano on April 14. —

Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026 For a piece in this week’s issue, Dhruv Khullar, a practicing physician and a contributing writer, investigated this growing industry, speaking to the doctors who are tinkering with compounds and the users gamely jabbing themselves in a quest for self-optimization. —

Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026 The split widens when a labor strike becomes an armed revolt, with Jacir gamely tracking the hardening or shifting loyalties of both her peasant and well-to-do characters. —

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026 That marquee status would seem to be a virtual guarantee for his second-round match later today against Alcaraz—Fonseca gamely fought through his first-round match against Hungary’s Fábián Marozsán yesterday in three sets, setting up this early-round gut-check. —

Nick Remsen, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2026 This was followed by a shot of Chalamet smiling gamely. —

James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026 Wilder slept through an entire lunch at Raffles, oblivious to the art deco glamour around him, and during our first food tour in Singapore, Ross carried him—dead weight, snoring—in the 90-degree heat while our guide gamely described chili sauces. —

Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gamely

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The two-time champion Scottie Scheffler tried valiantly with a 4-under 68 but ultimately came up one stroke shy.

— Don Riddell, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026
After so many seasons in which James valiantly carried otherwise ordinary teams to extraordinary achievements, the greatest scorer in NBA history was not even the Los Angeles Lakers' focal point this year.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026