pedetentously

comparative more pedetentously · superlative most pedetentously

1. formalrareIn a pedetentous fashion; cautiously; gradually.

   I ask you who you are, and what are you riving at Dr. W. I am advancing pedetentously.

   2012, S. Ross, Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science, page 29

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   With slow and cautious steps under the auspices of the Berlin. Academy, is now moving on, not pedetentously (to borrow a word coined by Sydney Smith), but by...

   1887, E. S. Roberts., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, page 534

   Known my feelings for she played dolente (dolefully) an erotica (a love song), singing of the whispering tentaculifera as they stealthily and pedetentously.

   1911, James Ira Deese Miller, A Guide into the South, (Quotation 6)