Bondedly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a bonded manner; in a way that evinces the presence or existence of a bond.

    "As they passed me they caught other's eye and so each smiled engagingly—chummily, congenially as well as bondedly— that I smiled, myself, in what I felt to be a corresponding sort of way."

Example

More examples

"As they passed me they caught other's eye and so each smiled engagingly—chummily, congenially as well as bondedly— that I smiled, myself, in what I felt to be a corresponding sort of way."

Etymology

From bonded + -ly.

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