peerlessly

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English peerless
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English peerlessly

    From peerless + -ly.

    Adverb

    peerlessly (not comparable)

    1. In a peerless manner.
      • 2011 February 24, Manohla Dargis, “Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 December 2024:
        The laughs start percolating after the wives split, natch, and their husbands, accompanied by a troika of jesters — Gary (the peerlessly funny Stephen Merchant), […]

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