Excretorily

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an excretory manner. rare

    "Still, novelists love those kinky, stinky Nazis — like Norman Mailer ’s excretorily fixated young Adi Hitler in “The Castle in the Forest” and A. N. Wilson ’s full-grown flatulent Führer in “Winnie and Wolf” — with their telltale mania for purity, order and efficiency."

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"Still, novelists love those kinky, stinky Nazis — like Norman Mailer ’s excretorily fixated young Adi Hitler in “The Castle in the Forest” and A. N. Wilson ’s full-grown flatulent Führer in “Winnie and Wolf” — with their telltale mania for purity, order and efficiency."

Etymology

From excretory + -ly.

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