Meaning of unlikelily | Babel Free

Definitions

In an unlikely manner.

rare

Examples

“As a rule⟳ novelists who treat⟳ of these people have⟳ a bad habit of making them out to be hopelessly idiotic or unlikelily vicious.”

“He pictures Mr Bridges brooding most unlikelily on the career of Gabriele D’Annunzio (the aviator poet)[…]”

“I went to Swansea a fortnight ago, for two nights, saw⟳ Fred, Vernon, Walter Flower, John Prichard, Bill Henry, Mrs Giles of the Singleton, the Borough Architect, and Mr Ernest Davies is, unlikelily, a fashion-designer, unless he was pulling my leg with a crane, and makes, out of cardboard & cellophane, very tiny naked women who do a kind of arthritic can-can when he lights a match⟳ behind them.”

“Is an ascendee a nominal which ascends (e.g. by Raising), or--unlikelily--one which is ascended?”

“The report⟳ continued even more unlikelily that the police were allegedly converted to Communist views, that ‘Proletarian Hundreds’ were formed under police auspices, ostensibly to assist the regular force⟳, and that generals of the former army who tried to attend⟳ commemorative parades of ex-servicemen were threatened with violence.”

“Along a different branch line we have⟳ returned to P. G. Wodehouse’s timeless world, to Bertie Wooster unlikelily compounded with Clarence Threepwood.”

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