warningfully

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From warningful +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

warningfully (comparative more warningfully, superlative most warningfully)

  1. In a warningful manner.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      Quickly, warningfully Buck Mulligan bent down
    • 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:
      “I guess everything that comes out of the human mouth is poison,” said Doc warningfully.
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