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larkily en · ADV

Etymology

From larky + -ly.

Meanings

1. playfully
   • Paul’s account of his childhood and youth is energetic, deeply felt and often quite funny in a larkily satiric way: his parents’ emotional withdrawal after his brother’s death; the petty sadism of institutional authority (Gaullism, it seems, writ small); and always, the raging hormones of adolescence. 2007 September 2, William Deresiewicz, “His Generation”, in New York Times:

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