Inhibitingly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    So as to inhibit.

    "Yet the script often feels as inhibitingly self-conscious as Ellis does as a host, suggesting a class writing assignment dutifully carried out by a precocious pupil who would rather be working on something else."

Example

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"Yet the script often feels as inhibitingly self-conscious as Ellis does as a host, suggesting a class writing assignment dutifully carried out by a precocious pupil who would rather be working on something else."

Etymology

From inhibiting + -ly.

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