Diminutively

Glo sat sheepishly, diminutively, her feet hardly touching the ground. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

I guess it was a situation known diminutively as “date rape” these days. ❋ Another Outspoken Female (2009)

Soon, the latest diminutively monikered Londoner (following Dizzee, Tinchy, Chipmunk et al) was being noted for his tracks as much as his chutzpah. ❋ Kitty Empire (2010)

A swirling band of long-tailed tits, so diminutively pretty, flitted through branches of the oaks before scudding off to a thicket of gorse. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Male genitals were usually portrayed diminutively in classical art. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The year 476, when the diminutively named Romulus Augustulus was deposed, became a conventional date for later writers of Rome's power ending in the West. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Though only diminutively behind in delegates, popular votes, and states won (she makes up in electoral math what she lacks in actual numbers), it is hard to see how Hillary could survive a superdelegate insurrection against the so-called frontrunner. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Preslav is a small city a “gradche” as the residents there affectionately… or diminutively… refer to it and was at one time the capital of Bulgaria. ❋ Greg (2008)

Also known as "Agent 00," the diminutively-sized action hero smashes drug cartels, gets chicks, carries around cool high-tech gadgets, and karate-chops the balls of nefarious criminal masterminds like Mr. Giant. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In one of those odd quirks of human convergence, Jackie Onassis, diminutively disembarking a queen-sized yacht one day back in the 1970's, apparently made a vivid impression on the natives of Haiti. ❋ Unknown (2004)

COLOTES, whom Epicurus was wont diminutively and by way of familiarity or fondness to call Colotaras and Colotarion, composed, ❋ Unknown (2004)

When I say, "There were few men with him," I speak diminutively, and mean to represent them as inconsiderable; whereas, when I say, ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

diminution of [consciousness] ❋ CursedCobra (2019)

A: Hey, why is your instance of [java] [Calendar] called "smallCalendar" B: Bro don't you see it's inside the for loop?! A: Oh it's the [diminutive convention], sorry ❋ Perkela (2021)