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insiderly en · ADJ

Etymology

From insider + -ly.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of insiders.
   • He has a much better-informed insiderly knowledge of the cultural and political complexities of the anarchist movement than his evasive prefatory comments on The Secret Agent and A Set of Six would imply. 2005, Carola M. Kaplan, Peter Lancelot Mallios, Andrea White, Conrad in the Twenty-first Century, page 140:
   • Both in Rivière's and in Giraudoux's case, the situations to which they were insiderly do France credit. 1958, The London Magazine, volume 5, page 73:
   • Miskin now seems permanently affixed to a Dalgleish who, once in the saddle, continues to project our approach to the bastions of institutional power as one of insiderly equality. 2003, Zachary Leader, On Modern British Fiction, page 253:

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