Gimmickily

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a gimmicky manner. rare

    "That's how it was with the Who: Dumber than the Stones, not as musical as the Beatles, more gimmickily pretentious than either, they nevertheless possessed the largest capacity for transcendence."

Example

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"That's how it was with the Who: Dumber than the Stones, not as musical as the Beatles, more gimmickily pretentious than either, they nevertheless possessed the largest capacity for transcendence."

Etymology

From gimmicky + -ly.

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