Sexlessly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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