Definition of "improvingly" in İngilizce

adverb

1. In a manner that tends to improve (especially, (dated), to educate or morally better a person).

   • 1856, Eliza Edmondston, Sketches and Tales of the Shetland Islands, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox, Chapter 12 “The Fowler,” p. 140, […] so fascinating and exciting is this method of idling away time which might be much more profitably and improvingly employed, that many of the fishermen frequent the cliffs, and peril their lives in the forbidden pursuit.
   • 1927, H. G. Wells, Meanwhile, New York: George H. Doran, Book II, “View,” § 10, p. 222, There are no newspapers and the broadcasting is given over to twaddle—there was a fellow gassing most improvingly about ants and grasshoppers yesterday—mixed up with slabs of biassed news and anti-strike propaganda.