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dickishly

dickishly adverb: in a dickish manner.

Adverb

dickishly (comparative more dickishly, superlative most dickishly)

  1. (slang, vulgar) In a dickish manner.
    • "Just hope," Eric continues, "that he's not tempting fate's dickishly ironic sense of humor."2011, Rick Huffman, The Last Night of Exile, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 211
    • Thwop! The heel of Joshua's hand cuffed me hard and mean behind the ear. Like I was a dog. He hadn't even taken his eyes off the road. "What the hell?"
      "I said the get. Not the gift. The get. Who said I was buying anyting?"
      "For God's sake, could you be more dickishly white trash about it? Hitting...2012, Adele Griffin, All You Never Wanted, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 58

Forms of dickishly

comparativemore dickishly
superlativemost dickishly

Origin of dickishly

From dickish + -ly.

Questions about dickishly

What does dickishly mean?
Dickishly means in a dickish manner.
What part of speech is dickishly?
Dickishly is an adverb.

Words near dickishly in the dictionary

  1. dickinsoniids
  2. dickinsoniomorph
  3. dickinsoniomorphs
  4. dickinsonite
  5. dickish
  6. dickishly
  7. dickishness
  8. Dickison
  9. dickite
  10. dickites
  11. dickitude

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