unforthcomingly

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English

Etymology

From unforthcoming +‎ -ly.

Adverb

unforthcomingly (comparative more unforthcomingly, superlative most unforthcomingly)

  1. In an unforthcoming way.
    • 1965, Vivian Collin Brooks, At One Fell Swoop, page 169:
      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.
    • 1995, Moira Ferguson, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender, page 96:
      Burns replies politely but unforthcomingly about this poem; he uses his allegedly untutored social manners to excuse his lack of response.
    • 2013, Nigel Tranter, Cable From Kabul:
      Passing the army camp we were spoken to by men hanging about there, but when we only grunted in answer unforthcomingly, they paid no further attention to us.