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insouciantly

insouciantly adverb: in an insouciant manner.

Adverb

insouciantly (comparative more insouciantly, superlative most insouciantly)

  1. In an insouciant manner.
    • A majority of the camera and sound and makeup crew are female, but a lot of these, too, have a similar look: 30ish, makeupless, insouciantly pretty, wearing faded jeans and old running shoes and black T-shirts, and with lush well-conditioned hair tied carelessly out of the way so that strands tend...1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group

Forms of insouciantly

comparativemore insouciantly
superlativemost insouciantly

Origin of insouciantly

From insouciant + -ly.

Questions about insouciantly

What does insouciantly mean?
Insouciantly means in an insouciant manner.
What part of speech is insouciantly?
Insouciantly is an adverb.

Words near insouciantly in the dictionary

  1. insonorous
  2. insooth
  3. insouciance
  4. insouciances
  5. insouciant
  6. insouciantly
  7. insoul
  8. insouled
  9. insouling
  10. insouls
  11. insource

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