distancingly

English

Etymology

distancing +‎ -ly

Adverb

distancingly (comparative more distancingly, superlative most distancingly)

1. So as to distance oneself.
   • 2007 August 5, Liesl Schillinger, “The Boy Next Door”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Personal stuff” is “smoke,” Kate tells Jamie, trying to sound distancingly in control.