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carbuncularly

carbuncularly adverb: in a way that involves or resembles one or more carbuncles.

Adverb

carbuncularly (comparative more carbuncularly, superlative most carbuncularly)

  1. In a way that involves or resembles one or more carbuncles.
    • He was commonly known as 'the Tulip', and according to a settler who knew him, 'he almost invariably wore a green cloth coat and had a big bulbous purply face, somewhat carbuncularly inclined'.1987, Alan Atkinson, Marian Aveling, Australians, 1838, page 384
    • On one of the Velpin's screens, a flickering outline appeared around one of the abandoned ships littering the carbuncularly irregular outer hull of the Sepulcraft.2008 -, Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist, →ISBN

Forms of carbuncularly

comparativemore carbuncularly
superlativemost carbuncularly

Origin of carbuncularly

From carbuncular + -ly.

Questions about carbuncularly

What does carbuncularly mean?
Carbuncularly means in a way that involves or resembles one or more carbuncles.
What part of speech is carbuncularly?
Carbuncularly is an adverb.

Words near carbuncularly in the dictionary

  1. carbuilders
  2. carbuncle
  3. carbuncled
  4. carbuncles
  5. carbuncular
  6. carbuncularly
  7. carbunculation
  8. carbunculations
  9. carbunculosis
  10. carbungi
  11. carbungis

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