kidnappingly

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adverb

By means of, or as if, kidnapping.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adverbkidnappingly (comparative more kidnappingly, superlative most kidnappingly)

comparative more kidnappingly · superlative most kidnappingly

  1. nonce wordBy means of, or as if, kidnapping.

    2026, Sergey Solovyov, Immortals. Twin Princesses, Ella and Elle. Black Wings of the Night And how to do everything more kidnappingly, so that the Fox could be released, and not get caught herself.

    1 more example

    For my part I hold it to have been wickedly, deceitfully, fraudulently, crimpingly, kidnappingly done, and with the purpose of inveigling and cheating, and carrying away the natives of Asia after the most approved practices of slave-trading, in their nefarious proceedings on the African coast.

    1838, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates (page 443)

Origin

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APA

kidnappingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kidnappingly

MLA

“kidnappingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kidnappingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kidnappingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kidnappingly.

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