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comparative more insidely · superlative most insidely
- In an inside or internal manner; internally.
You say something outsidely rude and insidely civil about its being my choice to edit; […]
1843, John Warden Robberds, Robert Southey, Sir Walter Scott, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor3 more examples
That is mentally—outsidely, but not insidely. You have not relaxed down through your body at all.
1920, Willard Carver, Psycho-bio-physiologyFive new members in the Connecticut club were taken on a selling campaign, over the hurdles of a couple of shrewd, hard boiled, insidely informed partners in a paint and wallpaper store — one of the roughest trips the quintet ever […]
1922, Painting & Decorating Contractors of America, National painters magazineAnd all it means: yet it begins "outsidely", like any other day; even "insidely" — oh, yes, deep inside one, it is different.
1986, Harley Granville-Barker, Eric Salmon, Granville Barker and his correspondents
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