unforthcomingly
English
editEtymology
editFrom unforthcoming + -ly.
Adverb
editunforthcomingly (comparative more unforthcomingly, superlative most unforthcomingly)
- 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.