Mousingly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a prying or meddlesome manner. archaic

    "Those who mousingly, or audaciously seek for places of public trust and power, are never worthy of them."

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"Those who mousingly, or audaciously seek for places of public trust and power, are never worthy of them."

Etymology

From mousing + -ly.

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