sexlessly

English

Etymology

sexless + -ly

Adverb

sexlessly (comparative more sexlessly, superlative most sexlessly)

  1. In a sexless manner, or in a way that lacks sex appeal
    • 2009, January 25, “Sarah Lyall”, in Is That You, Sherlock?:
      That Holmes occasionally wielded guns, leapt out of carriages and rushed through the fog with Errol Flynnesque panache, but mostly he was a giant brain inside a tweed suit, sexlessly debonair in the way Hollywood liked its leading men in the 1930s and 1940s.
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