teasingly

teasingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English teasing
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English teasingly

    From teasing + -ly.

    Adverb

    teasingly (comparative more teasingly, superlative most teasingly)

    1. In a teasing way or manner.
      • 1977 December 31, Lisa Nussbaum, “Jacqui Mac: Bringing Her Dreams Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10:
        One cannot help but notice a teasingly elusive air about her, as if she were a butterfly that refused to light and fluttered just out of reach of its would-be captor.

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