prosily

English

Etymology

From prosy +‎ -ly.

Adverb

prosily (comparative more prosily, superlative most prosily)

1. In a prosy manner.
   • 1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales‎^[1]:

     By what magic could the young student escape the weary old professor, who was prosily proving Time merely a form of thought; a proposition of which, to judge by the little value he appeared to set on the subject of his discourse, he must himself have been fully persuaded?

   • 1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook‎^[2]:

     He was earnestly but prosily orating at the audience.