gullishly

comparative more gullishly · superlative most gullishly

1. In a gullish manner.

   Volpone’s second and climactic attempt to seduce Celia is immediately followed by Lady Wouldbe’s deflating visit to the sickbed, when Volpone discovers his own desire not to be gullishly reduced by Lady Wouldbe to the role of a dying man but to live forever in triumphant projections of himself.

   1995, Manley Lawrence, Literature and culture in early modern London, Cambridge University Press, page 460