sexlessly

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adverb

In a sexless manner, or in a way that lacks sex appeal.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adverbsexlessly (comparative more sexlessly, superlative most sexlessly)

comparative more sexlessly · superlative most sexlessly

  1. In a sexless manner, or in a way that lacks sex appeal.

    That Holmes occasionally wielded guns, leapt out of carriages and rushed through the fog with Errol Flynnesque panache, but mostly he was a giant brain inside a tweed suit, sexlessly debonair in the way Hollywood liked its leading men in the 1930s and 1940s.

    2009 January 25, Sarah Lyall, “Is That You, Sherlock?”, in The New York Times

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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