undashingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From undashing +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

undashingly (comparative more undashingly, superlative most undashingly)

  1. In a way that is not dashing; unstylishly.
    • 1976, Mohinder K. Manchanda, India and America: Historical Links, page 91:
      This view […] is not however far different from the British Colonial view which undashingly urges selfish considerations.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 167:
      Rather undashingly he was captured in June 1940 as a sergeant in the Maginot Line, but escaped the following year to join a colonial infantry unit.