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subrisive (comparative more subrisive, superlative most subrisive)

1. (literary, rare) Playful, tongue-in-cheek.
   • 1885, Grant Allen, Charles Darwin, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 9:

     This half-hearted and somewhat subrisive denial, however, must be taken merely as a concession to the Sorbonne and to the fashionable exegesis of his own day; and, even so, the Sorbonne was too much in the end for the philosophic thinker.

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