posily

comparative more posily · superlative most posily

1. colloquialIn an ostentatious and pretentious manner.

   The waiter posily slops a bit of wine into my glass, and I go through the cringe-making ritual of snorting into it and tasting a bit and saying fine, fine.

   2003, Kate Cann, Hard Cash, page 140

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   The men keep staring posily out at the audience like disaffected male models; the male-female partner work is jarringly manipulative; the recurrent emphasis on multiple turns, multiple jumps, balances on point, is mere flash.

   2008 June 13, Alastair Macaulay, “The Cross-Country Currents in American Ballet”, in New York Times