starchily
- a word derived from starchy.
Example Sentences
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The ceiling was unbreached, the man said, and added, a little starchily, that the excrescence clearly was what it appeared to be.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
They could be starchily formal or free-flowing, operatic or pietistic, shameless or scolding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2020
But didn’t come out of the evening seeming like the film had won anything just because, solemnly and starchily, it was “time.”
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2014
That interdiction is somewhat new, some foreign critics starchily note, since France is known to have made payments to foreign hostage-takers in the past.
From Time ● Jan. 12, 2013
She was now prudently making cute kitchen curtains, which would soon starchily oppose the wind.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
