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  • adverb In an adult manner, not childishly.

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Examples

  • Over the weekend comic con attendees caught a glimpse of the second and probably last feature length trailer for the movie which adds more action and feels more adultly dramatic than anything we have seen previous.

    PRINCE CASPIAN second trailer | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • So, as I mumbled very adultly under my breath, “They started it,” I tossed the last Giggle-Doll back over the wall to its owners, who did not once come to my defense by admitting that they did, indeed, start it.

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005

  • There she sat — laughing — relaxed — engaged in a kind of banter he was old enough to label as adultly worldly.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • The beguiling scope of an infant's mind! adultly considered limited to toys and toes.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • The beguiling scope of an infant's mind! adultly considered limited to toys and toes.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • It could be that Second Life is so overtly and adultly sexual, but I don’t think that that’s it.

    Virtual Worlds as non-predatory spaces 2006

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