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  • adverb In a dorky way.

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Examples

  • So, I proposed to Tara over the weekend, and I did it as dorkily as possible using a comic strip.

    Some things and links and shtuff pabba 2009

  • In classic country fashion, Carrie was dressed a bit dorkily, with an ugly black bow in her hair and a black sash with white roses slapped on a lovely red dress.

    Michael Giltz: American Idol -- Top 11: Bye Alexis 2009

  • We were dorkily thrilled, though, that while asking all the questions, he took the time to find the earliest possible empty box in our passports for the stamp.

    Notes from Manchester and Hadrian's Wall C N Heidelberg 2009

  • We were dorkily thrilled, though, that while asking all the questions, he took the time to find the earliest possible empty box in our passports for the stamp.

    Archive 2009-05-01 C N Heidelberg 2009

  • I'd been struggling a little with character motivation throughout editing this novel, when I remembered a discussion I had (years ago) with another player on the site where I used to role-play (and, rather dorkily, where I met my fiance).

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • His dark hair is parted neatly and very dorkily to the right, Jake notes.

    Sleepless Thomas Fahy 2009

  • I'd been struggling a little with character motivation throughout editing this novel, when I remembered a discussion I had (years ago) with another player on the site where I used to role-play (and, rather dorkily, where I met my fiance).

    Multimedia Storytelling 2009

  • "[T] his execrable franchise dorkily scrapes the bottom of our collective pop-cultural barrel," grumbles Ed Gonzalez at Slant.

    GreenCine Daily: Shrek the Third. 2007

  • On a flat, hot highway between Austin and a little Texas town where there was yet another artist to be seen, I dorkily asked Rinder if he'd met his Lithuanian significant other through some kind of ethnic connection.

    THIS MAN WILL DECIDE WHAT ART IS 2008

  • She left a comment on the post and my sister and I dorkily texted each other about it for like an hour.

    blog: Beaks and Bests 2008

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