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- adverb In an
adult manner, notchildishly .
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Examples
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Over the weekend comic con attendees caught a glimpse of the second and probably last feature length trailer for the movie which adds more action and feels more adultly dramatic than anything we have seen previous.
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So, as I mumbled very adultly under my breath, “They started it,” I tossed the last Giggle-Doll back over the wall to its owners, who did not once come to my defense by admitting that they did, indeed, start it.
bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005
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There she sat — laughing — relaxed — engaged in a kind of banter he was old enough to label as adultly worldly.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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The beguiling scope of an infant's mind! adultly considered limited to toys and toes.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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The beguiling scope of an infant's mind! adultly considered limited to toys and toes.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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It could be that Second Life is so overtly and adultly sexual, but I don’t think that that’s it.
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