sparringly
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sparringly (comparative more sparringly, superlative most sparringly)
- As if sparring; in a combative manner.
- 1982, Yvonne Whittal, Bitter-Sweet Waters, page 144:
- There was a tense, angry silence as they faced each other sparringly in Abbey's dimly lit lounge, then Dalene hissed accusingly, 'You just don't care, do you?'
- 2015, Megan Quigley, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language:
- Woolf makes subjective even her statement that human affairs are subjective; Russell sparringly equates mathematics with divinity.