Definitions
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- adverb In a
semiformal manner.
Etymologies
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semiformal + -ly
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Examples
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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
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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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