Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a penetrative manner; with penetration.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with ability to see into deeply

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Examples

  • What kind of idiot, I mused, would injure themselves penetratively in anything other than a violent attack?

    TV review: 24 Hours in A&E; The Kids are Alright 2011

  • What kind of idiot, I mused, would injure themselves penetratively in anything other than a violent attack?

    TV review: 24 Hours in A&E; The Kids are Alright 2011

  • He had never been so aggressively, powerfully, penetratively gazed on, cruised, sexualized, ravaged by a woman.

    feminist blogs 2008

  • He had never been so aggressively, powerfully, penetratively gazed on, cruised, sexualized, ravaged by a woman.

    feminist blogs 2008

  • He had never been so aggressively, powerfully, penetratively gazed on, cruised, sexualized, ravaged by a woman.

    feminist blogs 2008

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