Usually means: With considerable weight or force.
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  1. heftily: Merriam-Webster
  2. heftily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heftily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. heftily: Vocabulary.com
  5. heftily: Wordnik
  6. heftily: Wiktionary
  7. heftily: Dictionary.com
  8. heftily: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a hefty manner.

Similar:
weightily, heavy, heavily, heavy-handedly, ponderously, hulkingly, topheavily, bulkily, onerously, galumphingly, more...

Opposite:
lightly, delicately, feebly, weakly

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Similar:
weightily, heavy, heavily, heavy-handedly, ponderously, hulkingly, topheavily, bulkily, onerously, galumphingly, more...

Opposite:
lightly, delicately, feebly, weakly



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