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  • adverb So as to thrust or protrude.

Etymologies

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thrusting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Most eye-catching, though, is Alex Hassell, who as Fernando is animated, thrustingly physical and at times vigorously goonish.

    Evening Standard - Home Henry Hitchings 2011

  • On the left, it reminds more hair-shirted types of the great popular quest for security, comfort, and material advancement; on the right, it underlines the fact that deference is long dead, and - Cameroons take note - post-Thatcher ­Conservatism must always at least partly speak with a thrustingly arriviste accent.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • On the left, it reminds more hair-shirted types of the great popular quest for security, comfort, and material advancement; on the right, it underlines the fact that deference is long dead, and - Cameroons take note - post-Thatcher ­Conservatism must always at least partly speak with a thrustingly arriviste accent.

    The Guardian World News 2010

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