larkily

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Etymology[edit]

larky +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

larkily (comparative more larkily, superlative most larkily)

  1. playfully
    • 2007 September 2, William Deresiewicz, “His Generation”, in New York Times[1]:
      Paul’s account of his childhood and youth is energetic, deeply felt and often quite funny in a larkily satiric way: his parents’ emotional withdrawal after his brother’s death; the petty sadism of institutional authority (Gaullism, it seems, writ small); and always, the raging hormones of adolescence.

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