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  • adverb In a floppy manner

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Examples

  • Her costume was of a kind that may be described as the floppily artistic.

    In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895

  • Now one of its fingers hangs as floppily as those on his left hand.

    White Cat Holly Black 2010

  • Now one of its fingers hangs as floppily as those on his left hand.

    White Cat Holly Black 2010

  • The small man's head whapped the floor, bouncing floppily several times.

    Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

  • My copy is a paperback and I experienced pretty severe pain in the wrists and the neck trying to contrive comfortable positions to balance this floppily-bloated agglomeration of dead trees for comfortable reading.

    PlanetJava 2009

  • Adding insult to injury, the can won’t crush properly any more (as it’s lost all structural integrity at one end), with the razor edge floppily creasing into a certain number of spikes instead (2~4, usually), the lid won’t easily fit in (certainly not when it’s a shallow one like a tuna can), and nor will it trap.

    Predatory stuff. 2009

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