unapproachably

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

unapproachable +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

unapproachably (comparative more unapproachably, superlative most unapproachably)

  1. In an unapproachable manner.
    She seemed unapproachably cold and aloof.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 41:
      [T]he wench was afflicted with religion and unapproachably austere.
    • 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
      [] and with the two promised Sheffielders, Driver Elliott and Fireman Lewis, we were soon on our way over the most unapproachably dreary region of the whole run, scarcely to be paralleled in the Black Country itself.