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larkily

larkily adverb: playfully.

Adverb

larkily (comparative more larkily, superlative most larkily)

  1. playfully
    • Paul’s account of his childhood and youth is energetic, deeply felt and often quite funny in a larkily satiric way: his parents’ emotional withdrawal after his brother’s death; the petty sadism of institutional authority (Gaullism, it seems, writ small); and always, the raging hormones of...2007 September 2, William Deresiewicz, “His Generation”, in New York Times

Forms of larkily

comparativemore larkily
superlativemost larkily

Origin of larkily

From larky + -ly.

Questions about larkily

What does larkily mean?
Larkily means playfully.
What part of speech is larkily?
Larkily is an adverb.

Words near larkily in the dictionary

  1. larkheel
  2. larkheels
  3. Larkhill
  4. larkier
  5. larkiest
  6. larkily
  7. Larkin
  8. Larkinesque
  9. larkiness
  10. larking
  11. larking about

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