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expositorily

expositorily adverb: in an expository fashion.

Adverb

expositorily (comparative more expositorily, superlative most expositorily)

  1. In an expository fashion.
    • And anyway, he expositorily tells us that he cares about American Indians and even sympathizes, somewhat, with the Sioux insurgency at Little Bighorn — or is that their “resistance”?2007 May 25, Virginia Heffernan, “There’s an Allegory in Those Hills”, in New York Times

Forms of expositorily

comparativemore expositorily
superlativemost expositorily

Origin of expositorily

From expository + -ly.

Questions about expositorily

What does expositorily mean?
Expositorily means in an expository fashion.
What part of speech is expositorily?
Expositorily is an adverb.

Words near expositorily in the dictionary

  1. expositive
  2. Exposito
  3. expositor
  4. expositorial
  5. expositorially
  6. expositorily
  7. expositoriness
  8. expositors
  9. expository
  10. expository lump
  11. expository lumps

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