Larkily
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 playfully
"Paul’s account of his childhood and youth is energetic, deeply felt and often quite funny in a larkily satiric way: his parents’ emotional withdrawal after his brother’s death; the petty sadism of institutional authority (Gaullism, it seems, writ small); and always, the raging hormones of adolescence."
Example
More examples"Paul’s account of his childhood and youth is energetic, deeply felt and often quite funny in a larkily satiric way: his parents’ emotional withdrawal after his brother’s death; the petty sadism of institutional authority (Gaullism, it seems, writ small); and always, the raging hormones of adolescence."
Etymology
From larky + -ly.
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