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uncomfily en · ADV

Etymology

From uncomfy + -ly.

Meanings

1. (informal) Uncomfortably.
   • I only just succeed in holding it out of the way, for parts of two trucks just touch it, and clang rather baulkingly, and the wheels are uncomfily close to my head. 1929, Oliver Elton, “Press Censorship”, in C. E. Montague: A Memoir, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 220–221:
   • EVERYTHING’S not comfily intimate, but uncomfily promiscuous and vast. 1920, Pan, page 15:
   • Our heads these days set most uncomfily under their small hats! 1945 January 6, E. S. K., “The Crostics Club”, in The Saturday Review of Literature, volume XXVIII, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The Saturday Review Associates, Inc., page 38:
   • None of the washes featured here contains triclosan, or potentially irritating sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), but all impressed our testers with how well they cleaned skin while not ‘stripping’ it and leaving it uncomfily tight. 2008, Sarah Stacey, Josephine Fairley, The Green Beauty Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Being Naturally Gorgeous, Kyle Cathie Limited, →ISBN, page 119:

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