hospitably
advEtymology From hospitable + -ly.
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in a hospitable manner.
- No other pedestrian was in sight; the door stood hospitably open and Mr Slater walked in.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
- Harrison was pretty well ginned-up when his guests arrived and he had proffered drinks freely and hospitably ever since.1925, J. Allan Dunn, The Three Traders:
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- On their arrival at Mr. Towkington’s chambers the oak was found to be hospitably unsported1927, Dorothy Sayers, Unnatural Death:
- Antonyms
- unhospitably, inhospitably