briskly
/ˈbrɪskli
/adverb
1In an active, quick, or energetic way: she walked briskly into the building tickets have been selling briskly...
- The three boys walked briskly on the sand.
- He is a master at briskly paced action movies.
- He does a good, workmanlike job with this, keeping the plot moving along briskly.
1.1In an impatient or brusque way: he replied briskly that no one at his school had ever gone truant...
- The moment he finished giving orders, she nodded briskly, impatiently even.
- The man was talking briskly now, snapping instructions at me.
- "Come on. Now!" she said, briskly.
1.2In a cold but pleasantly invigorating way: the wind blew fairly briskly we spent our day swimming in the briskly cold water...
- The hurricane was two days away, but the wind was already blowing briskly.
- I rolled down my windows slightly and the briskly cold night air blew in.
- We all sat around on this briskly cold morning to talk.