pulpilyadv.
/ˈpʌlpᵻli/, U.S. /ˈpəlpəli/ (a) In a pulpy or flabby manner. (b) In a manner reminiscent of a pulp novel.
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1856 W. Collins Rogue's Life ii, in Househ. Words 8 Mar. 189/1 A smooth double chin resting pulpily on a white cravat.
1978 Newsweek (Nexis) 25 Sept. 101 In another novel... There was not a sentence of it that wasn't ludicrously, pulpily wrong.
1997 Washington Post 26 Jan. X07 What may sound pulpily melodramatic in outline is adroit and disturbing in the telling.
2003 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 23 Feb. 6 One of the teenage girls..is soon slumped pulpily on the floor, dead.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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