unforthcomingly

English

Etymology

unforthcoming +‎ -ly

Adverb

unforthcomingly (comparative more unforthcomingly, superlative most unforthcomingly)

1. In an unforthcoming way.
   • 1965, Vivian Collin Brooks, At One Fell Swoop, page 169:

     He looked slyly at the Scotland Yard man and probed him, "You know who tbey think did it, don't you?" "Yes," said Inspector Hughes unforthcomingly.

   • 1995, Moira Ferguson, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender, page 96:

     Burns replies politely but unforthcomingly about this poem; he uses his allegedly untutored social manners to excuse his lack of response.

   • 2013, Nigel Tranter, Cable From Kabul:

     Passing the army camp we were spoken to by men hanging about there, but when we only grunted in answer unforthcomingly, they paid no further attention to us.