British
adjective
of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
Britishly
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a word derived from
British.
Example Sentences
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And as Martin, Whishaw is as Britishly brittle-yet-vulnerable as only he can be, the stoic, sad-eyed cuckold trying to rise above and move on from the fray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
There is “no call for national unity,” he Britishly snapped, with a concerned, reporting-from-a-colonial-warzone furrow on his brow.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2020
Those provisions would be replaced with what the Brady amendment, mysteriously and Britishly, refers to only as “alternative arrangements.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 31, 2019
"SEA-AGH-UHL," he repeated, Britishly, probably not meaning to make a comment on his own vaguely accented singing voice.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2010
Most of them were respectable; some of them even deemed themselves rather smart, and patronized him right Britishly.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
