Emasculatingly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    So as to emasculate.

    "Both characters are strangely, and emasculatingly, dependent on the objects of their fixation. Both bow rather mechanically to the pressures of "duty" at the expense of emotional and sexual fulfillment."

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"Both characters are strangely, and emasculatingly, dependent on the objects of their fixation. Both bow rather mechanically to the pressures of "duty" at the expense of emotional and sexual fulfillment."

Etymology

From emasculating + -ly.

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