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Meaning of carbuncularly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

In a way that involves or resembles one or more carbuncles.

Equivalents

Svenska karbunkellikt

Examples

“He was commonly known as 'the Tulip', and according to a settler who knew him, 'he almost invariably wore a green cloth coat and had a big bulbous purply face, somewhat carbuncularly inclined'.”
“On one of the Velpin's screens, a flickering outline appeared around one of the abandoned ships littering the carbuncularly irregular outer hull of the Sepulcraft.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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