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  1. adv. In a bumpy manner.

Etymologies

  1. bumpy +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

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  • “Despite the fact that the Episcopalians are bumpily journeying into a renewed future, some other Anglicans -- mostly in Africa -- are pretty mad that we've included our gay and lesbian friends and relatives in our churches.”

    The Huffington Post: Diana Butler Bass: A House Divided: Katharine Jefferts Schori Versus Rowan Williams

  • “During the traffic pileup, Bullet drove bumpily over the island that separated north and southbound traffic and maneuvered into northbound traffic and pushed the pedal to the floor.”

    Simon & Schuster: Stealing Candy

  • “How would you write the sentence- "I bumped along bumpily" without such lovely words?”

    10+ Rules for Writing Fiction- kind of

  • “Where would the world be without bumpily, answerably, and remedially?”

    10+ Rules for Writing Fiction- kind of

  • “The plane set down bumpily, taxied for a short time, and stopped in front of the main building.”

    My Trip to Cuba in 1998

  • “He nodded and then shifted gears as we lurched bumpily down the road.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Hollow

  • “It's somehow an apt anticlimax in Mirren's bumpily brilliant career that she would be rejected for the part that brought her the greatest fame in America.”

    Newsweek: THE PRIME OF HELEN MIRREN

  • “And if his plans become a logistical nightmare, they will remain as infrastructural decoration like half-buried, half-remembered trolley tracks of yesteryear, experienced bumpily by commuters daily.”

    This House Turns and Returns, Too

  • “We follow the development of someone who, believing that her fears represent her deepest truths, slowly and bumpily develops a greater degree of self-confidence — which may explain why her art becomes clearer and freer over time.”

    Daring and Disturbing

  • “American stocks represented 66% of the world's market value in 1970 and have been declining bumpily since then, primarily as a result of the growth in emerging markets, according to Russell Investments, which uses Russell and Morgan Stanley Capital International, or MSCI, indexes in its analysis.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Going Global: How Do You

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