Policingly

"Policingly" in a Sentence (4 examples)

[…] usually means passing plenty of pills in paper cups, and not just one. Why I have known psychiatrists - who have protectingly, politely and policingly pressured/prescribed 25 pills per day for the psychiatric "patient"/substitute person ...

I asked him if it was necessary and he said yes and he rather policingly escorted me out the front door and into the back of a waiting patrol car.

The insistence upon silence within these stilled spaces, as perhaps within a Quaker chapel, is such as to impose (self-policingly) its own unexamined […]

This has led fandom to ask whether the use of “Mary Sue” is self-policingly sexist; after all, mainstream genre stories regularly feature special teenage boys who save the world.

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