nonattributably
English edit
Etymology edit
non- + attributably
Adverb edit
nonattributably (not comparable)
- In a way that is not attributable.
- 1983, Encounter, volume 60, page 151:
- I felt moved to sympathy with that member of Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet who had muttered under his breath, and nonattributably, that in Japan the Trade Ministry ranks second and the Foreign Office eighteenth […]
- 2001, Larry Simmons, Broken Seals: No Safe Place, page 33:
- As a warrior, he knew a thousand ways to kill nonattributably. But he didn't lash out.