sexlessly

English

Etymology

From 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, “Is That You, Sherlock?”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      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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