posily

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English

Etymology

From posey +‎ -ly.

Adverb

posily (comparative more posily, superlative most posily)

  1. (colloquial) In an ostentatious and pretentious manner.
    • 2003, Kate Cann, Hard Cash, page 140:
      The waiter posily slops a bit of wine into my glass, and I go through the cringe-making ritual of snorting into it and tasting a bit and saying fine, fine.
    • 2008 June 13, Alastair Macaulay, “The Cross-Country Currents in American Ballet”, in New York Times‎:
      The men keep staring posily out at the audience like disaffected male models; the male-female partner work is jarringly manipulative; the recurrent emphasis on multiple turns, multiple jumps, balances on point, is mere flash.

Czech

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

posily

  1. inflection of posila:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Etymology 2

Participle

posily

  1. inflection of posít:
    1. inanimate masculine plural past active participle
    2. feminine plural past active participle
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