comically
advUK /ˈkɒmɪk(ə)li/ · US /ˈkɑmɪk(ə)li/
Etymology From comical + -ly.
1
In a comical manner.
- Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese.2009 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Clinic”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022: