In order

(1) You are positively wrong!

(2) Sounds awfully British to me.

(3) Inept wordsmiths trying to sound like ept wordsmiths

My own Q:

(a) Are these not adverbs, rather than adjectives?

(b) Why not drop all words with 'ly' suffixes on the basis that they are superfluous? (Yes that old hobby horse of mine again - sorry!!)

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