manfully
man fuh lee
- r in a manful manner; with qualities thought to befit a man
having said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her burden and prepared to break up yet another home
- He strides manfully forward, his eye on the horizon thus never noticing the open manhole he's about to step into.
- In the decade since, Hussein has struggled manfully to develop his little land; today he happily supplies Yemen's royalists with money and munitions to stave off a Nasser victory .
- John McCain has manfully admitted that he doesn't know much about economics.