carbuncularly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From carbuncular + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]carbuncularly (comparative more carbuncularly, superlative most carbuncularly)
- In a way that involves or resembles one or more carbuncles.
- 1987, Alan Atkinson, Marian Aveling, Australians, 1838, page 384:
- He was commonly known as 'the Tulip', and according to a settler who knew him, 'he almost invariably wore a green cloth coat and had a big bulbous purply face, somewhat carbuncularly inclined'.
- 2008 -, Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist, →ISBN:
- On one of the Velpin's screens, a flickering outline appeared around one of the abandoned ships littering the carbuncularly irregular outer hull of the Sepulcraft.