ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Policingly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Policingly is an adverb meaning (uncommon) In a policing manner; in a way that polices.

Meaning

(uncommon) In a policing manner; in a way that polices.

Example Sentences

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.
[…] 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 .

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include politesome, unpoliticly, politiquely, mannerly, regulatorily, politicly.

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