Definition of "pugilistically" []

• In a pugilistic manner; with reference to pugilism.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Last night's event, as Business Day's headline pugilistically proclaimed, brought ` no knockout blow '."
• "Governors did not see the matter in the light that the "Herald" did, and the pugilistically inclined manager was summarily expelled, the board refusing to settle the matter by accepting his resignation."
• "Suffice it that between them they brought the old Carmichael to his feet, his glasses flaming in the moonshine, his body thrown pugilistically backward, his jaw jutting like"