Now that I'm all grown up, I have indulged both Mathra and myself in some adultly decadent hot chocolate. |
His widely opened eyes, once cheerful were adultly profound and wise. |
Patsview thought she was writing adultly, though her use of the language betrayed her. |
I admit it, freely and adultly, with full cognitive rationality, and I suppose I'd beat myself up if that wouldn't constitute overkill. |
By John Updike The New Yorker, January 19, 1957P. 24 At the Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, a man and two small, adultly dressed boys proceeded from work to work. |
It's similar to the story itself, in which the kids behave more adultly than the parents who are always bickering. |