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Meaning of coxcombically | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

in the manner of a coxcomb

not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“"Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.”

CEFR level

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

coyishly coyly cozeningly cozily crabbedly crabbily

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