Antonyms for rigidlyrigid·ly

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1. rigidly, stiffly, boltadverb

   in a rigid manner

   "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright"

   Synonyms:
   slapdash, smack, stiff, bang, stiffly, bolt, slap

How to use rigidly in a sentence?

1. Margaret Mead:

   People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

2. Valerie Polakow:

   Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure.

3. Illusions Index:

   In 1804, Troxler made the discovery that rigidly fixating one’s gaze on some element in the visual field can cause surrounding stationary images to seem to slowly disappear or fade, they are replaced with an experience, the nature of which is determined by the background that the object is on.

4. Agatha Christie:

   If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

5. Justin Amash:

   Most Americans are not rigidly partisan and do not feel well represented by either of the two major parties, preserving liberty means telling the Republican Party and Republican Party that we'll no longer let them play their partisan game at our expense.

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