avertedly

comparative more avertedly · superlative most avertedly

1. In an averted manner; turned away.

   Maybe it was because they were looking down avertedly like that, trying to avoid the sound of the clock.

   1944, William Irish, Deadline at Dawn

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   […] he was surprised to see Isabel composedly, though avertedly, seated on the bench; the longer and fuller tresses of her now ungleaming hair flung back, and the guitar quietly leaning in the corner.

   1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities