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unforthcomingly

unforthcomingly adverb: in an unforthcoming way.

Adverb

unforthcomingly (comparative more unforthcomingly, superlative most unforthcomingly)

  1. In an unforthcoming way.
    • He looked slyly at the Scotland Yard man and probed him, "You know who tbey think did it, don't you?" "Yes," said Inspector Hughes unforthcomingly.1965, Vivian Collin Brooks, At One Fell Swoop, page 169
    • Burns replies politely but unforthcomingly about this poem; he uses his allegedly untutored social manners to excuse his lack of response.1995, Moira Ferguson, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender, page 96

Forms of unforthcomingly

comparativemore unforthcomingly
superlativemost unforthcomingly

Origin of unforthcomingly

From unforthcoming + -ly.

Questions about unforthcomingly

What does unforthcomingly mean?
Unforthcomingly means in an unforthcoming way.
What part of speech is unforthcomingly?
Unforthcomingly is an adverb.

Words near unforthcomingly in the dictionary

  1. unforsook
  2. unforsworn
  3. unfort
  4. unfortch
  5. unforthcoming
  6. unforthcomingly
  7. unforthcomingness
  8. unforthright
  9. unfortifiable
  10. unfortified
  11. unfortifies

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