policingly

English

Etymology

policing +‎ -ly

Adverb

policingly (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) In a policing manner; in a way that polices.
   • 1972, Leonard Roy Frank, Sherry Hirsch, Wade Lee Hudson, Madness Network News Volume #1, MNN Redux, page 29:

     […] usually means passing plenty of pills in paper cups, and not just one. Why I have known psychiatrists - who have protectingly, politely and policingly pressured/prescribed 25 pills per day for the psychiatric "patient"/substitute person ...

   • 2012 May 7, Dan Clore, “Drug Warriors Jail Injured Woman for "Forging" a Legimate Prescription”, in soc.rights.human (Usenet):

     I asked him if it was necessary and he said yes and he rather policingly escorted me out the front door and into the back of a waiting patrol car.

   • 2014, Clark Lunberry, Sites of Performance: Of Time and Memory, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 110:

     The insistence upon silence within these stilled spaces, as perhaps within a Quaker chapel, is such as to impose (self-policingly) its own unexamined […]

   • 2017, Francesca Coppa, The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 47:

     This has led fandom to ask whether the use of “Mary Sue” is self-policingly sexist; after all, mainstream genre stories regularly feature special teenage boys who save the world.