Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a drooping manner; languishingly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a drooping manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a drooping manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a drooping manner
Etymologies
- drooping + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He was sealed like a leper, and, weazen-faced and age-shrunken, he hobbled horribly from an ancient spear-thrust to the thigh that twisted his torso droopingly out of the vertical.”
“As I did so, I looked up to see Mrs. Stuart moving droopingly and lamely back into her own room.”
“I was the only one who found the comments to be jaw droopingly offensive, it seemed.”
“Here, conveniently and heathfully elevated above the level of the living, were the dead, and the tombstones; some of the latter droopingly inclined from the perpendicular, as if they were ashamed of the lies they told.”
“Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart.”
“Then there was the jaw-droopingly beautiful Tia Carrere, who positively floated into the lobby to work on Lilo and Stitch.”
“And then Mrs. Johnson went on with the utmost gusto to the details of the “casket,” while Mr. Polly sat more and more deeply and droopingly into the armchair, assenting with a note of protest to all they said.”
“I lie here in a hotel room in one of my favorite cities, having driven through the pounding rain in a neck-droopingly awful sleep, riding shotgun with Trolli Sour Brite Crawlers Candy on my belly.”
“Before they entered the gate Yves had the wit to draw back the length of his leash, well away from the punctured wine-skin, and blunder in droopingly, like one exhausted and cowed.”
“For about three-quarters of the way up, the 'plume' of which Clara speaks has one straight trunk, which then bends over droopingly.”
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