Carbuncularly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a way that involves or resembles one or more carbuncles.
"He was commonly known as 'the Tulip', and according to a settler who knew him, 'he almost invariably wore a green cloth coat and had a big bulbous purply face, somewhat carbuncularly inclined'."
Example
More examples"He was commonly known as 'the Tulip', and according to a settler who knew him, 'he almost invariably wore a green cloth coat and had a big bulbous purply face, somewhat carbuncularly inclined'."
Etymology
From carbuncular + -ly.
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