vestigial
adjective
of, relating to, or of the nature of a vestige.
vestigially
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a word derived from
vestigial.
Example Sentences
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There is always the question in a show at least vestigially devoted to topical satire on how hard to poke the guest, and how much to flatter him.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2021
There’s something vestigially Hitchcockian in the elements of suspense and suspicion, of surveillance, fear, and paranoia.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2015
Crandon sent photos of Tara Lordi in Shanghai with a Chinese man, whom he still, vestigially, called “my partner”: “2 days after that photo, Chinese canceled our deal.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 7, 2015
Hungary was a vestigially feudal country when the Communists took it over in 1944 in their sweep toward Vienna.
From Time Magazine Archive
