eavesdroppingly
English
Etymology
eavesdropping + -ly
Adverb
eavesdroppingly (not comparable)
- (rare) So as to eavesdrop.
- 1980, Jasper Evian, Father daughter
- "When you get us a car," she said, at the same time sticking a dollar and change into the beggar's cup that was our only passage into the eavesdroppingly perfect world of the cabbie.
- 1980, Jasper Evian, Father daughter