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The word 'decidedly' is correct and commonly used in written English
It is an adverb that means in a definite or unquestionable manner. I use the word 'decidedly' when I want to express a strong or certain opinion or to emphasize something. For example: - The new employee was decidedly unqualified for the job. - The weather was decidedly gloomy, with rain pouring down all day. - The politician's speech was decidedly lacking in substance. - Despite his initial doubts, John was decidedly impressed by the new restaurant. - I am decidedly in favor of implementing stricter laws for environmental protection.
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Decidedly
adverb
In a manner which leaves little question; definitely, clearly.
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Among Facebook users, the reaction was decidedly mixed.
After spending many hours in a beauty salon I was decidedly light-headed from inhaling hairspray.
Instead, her pitch was decidedly focused on economic issues such as equal pay, paid family leave and raising the minimum wage, although Clinton pointed out such matters disproportionately affected minority women.
The hostel was purpose-built in the 1970s and there's something of a vintage feel, especially in the shared bathrooms which, while spotless, are decidedly old-fashioned.
He'd slipped away for a meeting and a quieter drink in the atmospheric front bar not long after drag comedian Sofia made her entrance in a beribboned Priscilla-style bus and took to the stage with a decidedly R-rated routine.
Even as Republicans have mounted a decidedly anti-Clinton message in the primary – raising questions over her family's nonprofit and her use of a private email server at the State Department – Clinton has largely declined to go on the offensive and dismissed GOP attacks as a distraction from her campaign.
Two millennia later, the decidedly 21st century combination of big data and crowdsourcing may be yielding the answer.
Five-thousand members of the Women's Institute have gathered to mark 100 years of their foundation, and as the defiant "Ladies Toilett" signs stuck on the doors of the gents' affirm, for one day at least, this is decidedly a women's world.
On Fendi's AW15 catwalk, it was less baker and more butcher as models paraded in leather A-line apron mini skirts with leather apron tops, all toy buttons and bizarre furry boots: a decidedly weightier and wipe-down version.
I think this is what I like most about boyfriend clothes: despite their decidedly unfeminist name, they are not made for male approval.
Its pilot was decidedly shaky, but its stars, Leslie Bibb and Rachel Dratch, bounced energetically off each other – it would have been interesting to see whether it found its feet over the course of a full series.
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