proverbially
advEtymology From proverbial + -ly.
1
In a manner that uses proverbs; in or according to proverbs.
- The bee is a proverbially busy creature.
- “Unless I am gravely in error you are yourself a very brave man, and brave men are proverbially magnanimous.”1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 33:
2
In a manner reminiscent of a proverb.
- Related terms
- proverb, proverbial