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
Its climate is rather British, for its winter season has a great deal of rain where other parts of Canada have snow, and its climate is Britishly warm and soft.
From Westward with the Prince of Wales by W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton
