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- adverb In a
floppy manner
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Examples
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Her costume was of a kind that may be described as the floppily artistic.
In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895
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Now one of its fingers hangs as floppily as those on his left hand.
White Cat Holly Black 2010
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Now one of its fingers hangs as floppily as those on his left hand.
White Cat Holly Black 2010
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The small man's head whapped the floor, bouncing floppily several times.
Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010
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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
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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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