unforthcomingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an unforthcoming way.
Example Sentences
- "He looked slyly at the Scotland Yard man and probed him, "You know who tbey think did it, don't you?" "Yes," said Inspector Hughes unforthcomingly."
- "Burns replies politely but unforthcomingly about this poem; he uses his allegedly untutored social manners to excuse his lack of response."
- "Passing the army camp we were spoken to by men hanging about there, but when we only grunted in answer unforthcomingly, they paid no further attention to us."
Etymology
From unforthcoming + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more unforthcomingly (comparative)
most unforthcomingly (superlative)