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CONSTRAINEDLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does constrainedly mean?
• CONSTRAINEDLY (adverb)
The adverb CONSTRAINEDLY has 1 sense:
1. in a constrained manner
Familiarity information: CONSTRAINEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a constrained manner
Pertainym:
constrained (lacking spontaneity; not natural)
Context examples
Here is Miss Trotwood—and Trotwood, whom you have not seen for a long while! and then he approached, and constrainedly gave my aunt his hand, and shook hands more cordially with me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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