Sexlessly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a sexless manner, or in a way that lacks sex appeal.

    "That Holmes occasionally wielded guns, leapt out of carriages and rushed through the fog with Errol Flynnesque panache, but mostly he was a giant brain inside a tweed suit, sexlessly debonair in the way Hollywood liked its leading men in the 1930s and 1940s."

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"That Holmes occasionally wielded guns, leapt out of carriages and rushed through the fog with Errol Flynnesque panache, but mostly he was a giant brain inside a tweed suit, sexlessly debonair in the way Hollywood liked its leading men in the 1930s and 1940s."

Etymology

From sexless + -ly.

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