steadily

CEFRB1

/ˈstɛdɪli/

adverb

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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The patient is steadily recovering.
She lisped slightly, little-girlish, looking at him still while drinking whisky steadily from a full glass.
It grew steadily colder and presently a mushroomy sort of smell came up from the darkness.

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She lisped slightly, little-girlish, looking at him still while drinking whisky steadily from a full glass.
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 281
The last 61 miles of the journey, from Kongsberg to Oslo, are through much less mountainous country. The railway curves sharply away from the Lågan^([sic]), and descends steadily, and in places steeply, past the head of Lake Fiskerumvatn to Hokksund, where the connecting line to the Bergen-Oslo Railway at Hønefoss diverges.
1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 219
It grew steadily colder and presently a mushroomy sort of smell came up from the darkness.
1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 18

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From steady + -ly.