insiderly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

insider +‎ -ly

Adjective[edit]

insiderly (comparative more insiderly, superlative most insiderly)

  1. Characteristic of insiders.
    • 1958, The London Magazine, volume 5, page 73:
      Both in Rivière's and in Giraudoux's case, the situations to which they were insiderly do France credit.
    • 2003, Zachary Leader, On Modern British Fiction, page 253:
      Miskin now seems permanently affixed to a Dalgleish who, once in the saddle, continues to project our approach to the bastions of institutional power as one of insiderly equality.
    • 2005, Carola M. Kaplan, Peter Lancelot Mallios, Andrea White, Conrad in the Twenty-first Century, page 140:
      He has a much better-informed insiderly knowledge of the cultural and political complexities of the anarchist movement than his evasive prefatory comments on The Secret Agent and A Set of Six would imply.