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Definition of Divertingly
1. Adverb. In an entertaining and amusing manner. "Hollywood has grown too sophisticated to turn out anything really amusingly bad these days"
Definition of Divertingly
1. Adverb. In a diverting manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divertingly
Literary usage of Divertingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham (1908)
"... in the Library at Ulm, for a literary society at Stuttgart, by CD Hassler, a
Professor in the Gymnasium of Ulm. His style is divertingly quaint, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"At his best, GK ('.., the critical essayist, can be in dead earnest and highly
edifying on large and important subjects more agreeably and divertingly than ..."
3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"The story of " Penny Jack", which begins so divertingly, belongs to that class
of popular fictions in which the youngest son—aptly styled " Boots" by ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1850)
"The correspondence in Nichols divertingly shows, once and again, that this rebuff
had not faded from his mind. From the Dr.'s epistolary ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Accordingly, while he could not stomach Exeter Hall, as he divertingly tells us,
and found himself expelled from the columns of Good Words because he ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"The situation, however, inside the party remains, and must long remain, divertingly
chaotic. Some ninety-five per cent, of the Unionist MP's have suddenly ..."
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