Meaning

(rare) In an unlikely manner..

Example Sentences

As a rule novelists who treat of these people have a bad habit of making them out to be hopelessly idiotic or unlikelily vicious.

He pictures Mr Bridges brooding most unlikelily on the career of Gabriele D’Annunzio (the aviator poet)[…]

I went to Swansea a fortnight ago, for two nights, saw Fred, Vernon, Walter Flower, John Prichard, Bill Henry, Mrs Giles of the Singleton, the Borough Architect, and Mr Ernest Davies is, unlikelily, a fashion-designer, unless he was pulling my leg with a crane, and makes, out of cardboard & cellophane, very tiny naked women who do a kind of arthritic can-can when he lights a match behind them.

Is an ascendee a nominal which ascends (e.g. by Raising), or--unlikelily--one which is ascended?

The report continued even more unlikelily that the police were allegedly converted to Communist views, that ‘Proletarian Hundreds’ were formed under police auspices, ostensibly to assist the regular force, and that generals of the former army who tried to attend commemorative parades of ex-servicemen were threatened with violence.

Along a different branch line we have returned to P. G. Wodehouse’s timeless world, to Bertie Wooster unlikelily compounded with Clarence Threepwood.

Word Forms

• more unlikelily
• most unlikelily

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Use unlikelily when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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