pluckily, adv. colloq.
(ˈplʌkɪlɪ)
[f. plucky a. + -ly2.]
In a plucky manner; bravely, courageously.
| 1858 Trollope Dr. Thorne xxix, ‘No’, said Frank, pluckily, as he put his horse into a faster trot, ‘I won't mortgage that’. 1859 Smiles Self-Help 20 He did not..retire dejected,..but pluckily set himself to work. |