Unkissable vs Unkissably - What's the difference?
unkissable | unkissably |
So as to preclude kissing.
* 1982 , Craig Strete, Dreams That Burn in the Night (page 52)
* 2002 , Morton Levitt, Joyce and the Joyceans (page 173)
* 2003 , Louis Edwards, Oscar Wilde Discovers America (page 95)
As an adjective unkissable
is that cannot be kissed; not suitable for kissing.As an adverb unkissably is
so as to preclude kissing.unkissably
English
Adverb
(-)- Just as he was ready to spring all two hundred pounds of him on the helpless lizard, his attention was distracted by a rather large snake of the unkissably poisonous variety.
- In any case, the unkissably shrewish Kate seems to be offering a bit of conspiratorial advice, "Slip around [the back]," as if to get away with something.
- Traquair watched Miss Trenton walk slowly back up the path to the house, where he saw Miss Grant standing with her hands covering her mouth, which he imagined was in its usual, unkissably open pose.
