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emasculatingly

adv

Etymology

From emasculating + -ly.

Definitions

  1. So as to emasculate.

    • Both characters are strangely, and emasculatingly, dependent on the objects of their fixation. Both bow rather mechanically to the pressures of "duty" at the expense of emotional and sexual fulfillment.
    • "By whom?" Elspeth demanded in a tone so emasculatingly terrifying every Y chromosome in ear shot grafted on an extra leg in desperate hope not to be noticed.

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