policingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] usually means passing plenty of pills in paper cups, and not just one. Why I have known psychiatrists - who have protectingly, politely and policingly pressured/prescribed 25 pills per day for the psychiatric "patient"/substitute person ..."
- "I asked him if it was necessary and he said yes and he rather policingly escorted me out the front door and into the back of a waiting patrol car."
- "The insistence upon silence within these stilled spaces, as perhaps within a Quaker chapel, is such as to impose (self-policingly) its own unexamined […]"
- "This has led fandom to ask whether the use of “Mary Sue” is self-policingly sexist; after all, mainstream genre stories regularly feature special teenage boys who save the world."
Etymology
From policing + -ly.