Coxcombically

Origin

coxcombical + -ly

Full definition of coxcombically

Adverb

1. (obsolete) in the manner of a coxcomb
• 1919, Ronald Firbank, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88"Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.