adolescently
- a word derived from adolescent.
Example Sentences
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Mr. West makes him a rather dubious character, unnecessarily: Is he adolescently insecure or devious?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Up to and including Ardern’s remarks about the role of social media delivered in parliament on Tuesday – game-changing remarks which surely chilled the air, even at Facebook’s adolescently named address, 1 Hacker Way.
From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2019
The group had really long hair and looked really adolescently cool, and had a sort of Cro-Magnonesque nobility about them.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2014
He soliquizes long and adolescently on art suppressed; she chews gum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hitherto Mr. Direck had been inclined to think this silent observant youth, with his hands in his pockets and his shoulders a little humped, as probably shy and adolescently ineffective.
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
