| 单词 | expletively |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexˈpletively exˈpletively adv. (a) in an expletive manner, with redundancy of expression; (b) with the use of or in the manner of swear words. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > to fill out sentence expletively1606 parapleromatically1698 1606 T. Hutton 2nd Pt. Reasons for Refusall 209 Expletiuely making vp the sentence with some one word or other. 1662 G. Lawson Expos. Epist. Hebrewes vii. 118 The word..is used expletively for ornament. 1759 M. Pilkington Remarks Script. xix. 95 And, as Soul is used expletively, so is Body also. 1860 J. Young Province Reason 171 Loosely, expletively, rhetorically, we speak of the Infinite Life. 1888 Naut. Mag. Apr. 281 The sailor immediately shouts out that it is a ‘bad discharge’, and then delivers his excited soul expletively. 1906 E. Jepson Tinker Two iii. 56 The two friends wrangled expletively, either trying to fix the blame of their misfortunes on the other. 1920 Harper's Mag. May 757/2 He has a trick of rumbling on expletively and breathing rather heavily through his nose long after actual sentences have ceased to come. 2002 M. Bygraves Stars in my Eyes 62 The sort of language usually spoken by drunken sailors but on this night delivered expletively by Judy G. < as lemmas |
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