Meaning of subrisive | Babel Free

Definitions

Playful, tongue-in-cheek.

literary, rare

Examples

“This half-hearted and somewhat subrisive denial, however, must be taken merely as a concession to the Sorbonne and to the fashionable exegesis of his own day; and, even so, the Sorbonne was too much in the end for the philosophic thinker.”

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