posily
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editposily (comparative more posily, superlative most posily)
- (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[1]:
- 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
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editposily
- inflection of posila:
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