punily

I have heard the squealing of pigs at slaughtering time, when instinct tells them of the deadly intent of men and they try punily to fight.

But there needed to be a hundred or so more performers for "Still Waters" to work less punily than it did as it trailed about one end of a pool.

But then the program's great problem became apparent in a duet, danced by K. T. Nelson and Stuart Gold, in which the kinds of movement that had come before looked punily decorative and superficial when danced to the slow movement, with its haunting simple clarinet part.