单词 | non-committally |
释义 | non-committallyadv. In a non-committal manner; without committing oneself. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [adverb] > neutrally neutrally1571 indifferentlya1616 non-committally1861 1861 Richland County (Wisconsin) Observer 26 Feb. It suited her to play the part assigned to her, and she answered non-committally. 1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham I. 187 ‘She's a pretty girl,’ said Corey non-committally. 1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 June 378/2 A lady whose autobiography..had a reception that may—quite non-committally—be characterised as warm. 1984 M. Scammell Solzhenitsyn (1985) xii. 209 Solzhenitsyn answered briefly and non-committally. 1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate iii. 27 Obermann looked at him noncommittally. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1861 |
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