characterfully
advEtymology From characterful + -ly.
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In a characterful way.
- My idea concerning the stage picture was that it should represent truthfully and characterfully the original ‘Dance in Place Congo’ as described by Mr. Cable.1919, Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, quotee, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thirty-Ninth Season, 1919–1920: Programme of the First Afternoon and Evening Concerts, “The Dance in Place Congo,” Symphonic Poem (after George W. Cable), page 1093:
- Unfortunately, your characterfully arranged business card turns out ineffective because of a poor choice of colors.1923 January, J. L. Frazier, “Specimens”, in Harry Hillman, editor, The Inland Printer, volume 70, number 4, page 548:
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- The lines leap off the page in the 1817 volume not, I insist, because they are good, and not because they are characterfully bad like so much of the early poetry of feel, but because they are unKeatsian.1969, John Jones, John Keats’s Dream of Truth, New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., II: The Abstract Idea. 2. Hyperion, page 79: