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  • In a formless manner.

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  • adverb In a formless manner

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  • adverb in a formless manner

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Examples

  • What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, but always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades.

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  • What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, but always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades.

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  • She wore an ankle-length, one-piece, flowered dress that hung formlessly over her ample figure.

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  • She wore an ankle-length, one-piece, flowered dress that hung formlessly over her ample figure.

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  • She wore an ankle-length, one-piece, flowered dress that hung formlessly over her ample figure.

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  • Many of the dark clothes hang formlessly, drapily, like funeral shrouds.

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  • Why depict it so formlessly — why not show what it really was?

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  • Many of the dark clothes hang formlessly, drapily, like funeral shrouds.

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  • I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy.

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  • It flashed and swirled formlessly for a moment, and then its pink vapors opened like curtains.

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