abortively
- a word derived from abortive.
Example Sentences
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He launched a profitable security firm and ran abortively for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2021
M ., whereupon detectives, who had been strenuously but abortively interrogating the suspect, withdrew to another room, leaving the minister to consult privately with his parishioner.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
It ended abortively, and permitted me to continue with perfect impunity to give in letters to the Times evidence I was debarred from giving in Court.
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.
Even now the mechanism in the dog is not sufficiently precise to subserve the only function which occasionally and abortively it attempts to perform.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
Will it be believed that the whole diplomatic machinery was set on foot to induce the Swiss Government to prosecute the unfortunate entertainer, abortively of course, since it could not have been legally done?
From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort
