bold
We must act, and we must act boldly.
The government has tried to move boldly to deal with the crisis.
She boldly marched up to the front of the queue and introduced herself to the doorman.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Brave and courageous
adventurous
adventurously
audacious
ballsy
be man enough to do somethingidiom
fearlessly
gallant
gallantly
get up
get your courage upidiom
manfully
muster something up
nerves of steelidiom
pluck
pluck up your courageidiom
valiant
valiantly
valorously
venturesome
woman

Examples of boldly

boldly
Within this outline, the new building expresses itself boldly.
They dared not come out boldly for protective tariffs, or even for any considerable increase in imperial preference.
Even more boldly he advanced a case for taking over most local public services, including the salaries of their technical officers.
The headlines ignored contrary evidence, and presented 'facts' boldly, singularly and uniformly.
Yet he boldly conjectures that both kinds of processing arose in parallel rather than being serially connected.
It confronts boldly the difficulties that practitioners experience when discussing a diagnosis of dementia with individuals and their families.
Here, the placement of the rondeau and motet boldly highlights the two works' shared structure.
The force of the market is driving journalists to boldly push into previously forbidden areas even though they recognize the political risk.
The lamentable fact was, he boldly asserted, that the nation's libraries and secondhand book shops contained ever burgeoning 'restricted' sections.
I suspect, however, that like most boldly stated ideas in science, it will attract a lot of flak.
They looked upon reinforcement as a new extra tool for deploying beams boldly and economically, not as a means for systematic construction of whole buildings.
Emissaries of death, some come boldly to appall us; others flaunt their lost lives only to lament.
Their second chapter boldly addresses the status of ' sentence ' in syntactic theory.
And, if it wants to exert leadership in the area of global environmental protection, it must boldly face the challenge.
One could put this boldly, and say that it is from this period that our neglect of performance as a historical and philosophical phenomenon dates.
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