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What does adultly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In an adult manner, not childishly.
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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.

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