becomingly

adv

becomingly

adv

UK /bɪˈkʌmɪŋli/

Etymology From becoming + -ly.

1

In a becoming manner.

  • Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century."1885 July 9, The Hamilton Spectator, page 4:
  • The pleated skirts she liked were becomingly short.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 44:

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