Definitions

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  • adverb In a semiformal manner.

Etymologies

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semiformal +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I imagine life welcoming me back like a line of semiformally attired second cousins, great-aunts, and uncles once removed, on a bar mitzvah conga line.

    Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

  • Looking very much like the fashion plate celebrated in magazines, complete with stylishly unruly blond mane and plunging black leather-like jacket, Blake Lively sits semiformally on a couch in a suite at the Luxe Hotel.

    unknown title 2009

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