compromisingly
- a word derived from compromise.
Example Sentences
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When Bobby-Soxer Shirley Temple falls head over socks for Bachelor Gary Grant, she invades his lair so compromisingly that he is jailed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks—already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Frank was just about to protest when she added compromisingly: "I'll make some more for lunch."
From The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained by Hope, Laura Lee
They’re compromisingly large, and there’s a strange mixture of orchids and forget-me-nots, roses and gardenias that I don’t quite like.
From Bird of Paradise by Leverson, Ada
But here," pursued the statesman, compromisingly, "are old memories protected by modern conveniences.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
