unforthcomingly

In an unforthcoming way.

Adverb

  1. In an unforthcoming way.
    • He looked slyly at the Scotland Yard man and probed him, "You know who tbey think did it, don't you?" "Yes," said Inspector Hughes unforthcomingly. - 1965, Vivian Collin Brooks, At One Fell Swoop, page 169:
    • Burns replies politely but unforthcomingly about this poem; he uses his allegedly untutored social manners to excuse his lack of response. - 1995, Moira Ferguson, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and...
    • Passing the army camp we were spoken to by men hanging about there, but when we only grunted in answer unforthcomingly, they paid no further attention to us. - 2013, Nigel Tranter, Cable From Kabul:

Origin

From unforthcoming + -ly.

Forms

more unforthcomingly most unforthcomingly