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unpromptly

unpromptly adverb: without promptness; after a delay.

Adverb

unpromptly (comparative more unpromptly, superlative most unpromptly)

  1. Without promptness; after a delay.
    • No matter how promptly or unpromptly we enact the budget, you simply cannot get those three sets of numbers working simultaneously, and the deficit is quite sensitive now to some of those numbers. So you cannot have it all three ways at once.1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, The Budget Deficit, page 478

Forms of unpromptly

comparativemore unpromptly
superlativemost unpromptly

Origin of unpromptly

From unprompt + -ly.

Questions about unpromptly

What does unpromptly mean?
Unpromptly means without promptness; after a delay.
What part of speech is unpromptly?
Unpromptly is an adverb.

Words near unpromptly in the dictionary

  1. unpromotable
  2. unpromoted
  3. unprompt
  4. unprompted
  5. unpromptedly
  6. unpromptly
  7. unpromptness
  8. unpromulgated
  9. unprone
  10. unpronged
  11. unpronouncable

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