How to Use roundly in a Sentence

roundly

adverb
  • She roundly criticized the plan.
  • Her leadership is roundly praised.
  • Back when the show first aired, Skyler was roundly disliked.
    Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Trump was roundly booed that evening after he was shown on the stadium's video board.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Witness the launch of a new streaming app, Max, being roundly mocked in the industry.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But fans of the Sulphur Springs romance-young adult author took to social media to roundly object to the book.
    Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • It had been roundly denounced by Spears, who described it as abusive.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The case was roundly seen as a failure of post-apartheid justice, but the mounds of evidence assembled by Mr. Dutton and his team did not go to waste.
    New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Advertisement Not all of its scoops were roundly praised.
    Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Our voters agreed: The deep-dive interview podcast was also roundly praised in the survey.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The move was roundly panned, but under La Russa’s guidance, the White Sox won their first division title since 2008.
    Jared Diamond, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The offer was roundly mocked, prompting the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, to ask whether Germany would send pillows next.
    Erik Kirschbaum, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • When his name came up in various speeches and presentations, the crowd roundly booed him.
    Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
  • The tabloids — often a crucial barometer of British public opinion — have roundly turned against him.
    Christina Boyle, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Martino had been roundly criticized for the lack of scoring.
    Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That came after the bank roundly beat profit and revenue expectations for the first quarter.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But his impeachment vote was roundly jeered in his ruby-red district on the South Carolina coast.
    Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 11 June 2022
  • The choice was roundly lambasted at the time and generally attributed to a craven motive.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Bitcoin users roundly supported the tweaks, a stark contrast to the 2017 upgrade that split the crypto’s community.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Primaries are the sort of political contest that both keep democracy afloat and tend to be roundly ignored.
    WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
  • These groups have, in turn, roundly quarreled over this contention and have pointed to other instances in which the councilman has failed to offer his support.
    Nicholas Slayton, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The early returns for FC Cincinnati have been roundly positive.
    The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The wave of devil-cult thrillers in the 1970s roundly attempted to harness the same realism that Fisher brings out in this film, but none of them could match the truly outré quality here.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Public-health experts roundly oppose Title 42, but Biden has decided to leave it in place.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The months-long legislative review, which was roundly criticized by election experts, affirmed Trump’s loss in the state.
    Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But staff—at least, male staff for whom business casual is clear-cut—roundly appreciated the new rules.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Not that he himself hasn’t been roundly heckled and occasionally jumped on stage in his early days.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 14 July 2022
  • The two candidates who see Trump as a lawbreaker were roundly booed for their views: Hutchinson and Christie, who offered an extended tribute to Pence.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The pair roundly blasted her policies on education and crime-fighting.
    The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
  • It has also been roundly reviewed as one of the best internal SSDs in its category.
    Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023

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