Coxcombically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    in the manner of a coxcomb not-comparable, obsolete

    ""Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia."

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""Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia."

Etymology

From coxcombical + -ly.

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