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Definitions

Adverb

1. 1
   So as to deform.

   "She is consistently but not deformingly alert to irony, to satire, to humor in its high and low forms."

Example

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"She is consistently but not deformingly alert to irony, to satire, to humor in its high and low forms."

Etymology

From deforming + -ly.

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