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- adverb In a
lumpy manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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My father died 14 years ago and I am still, slowly, lumpily, processing it.
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009
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The infant settled lumpily against Mabel's breast.
Delivery 2010
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He does well within the confines of a script adapted lumpily from a novel by Lois Duncan.
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He does well within the confines of a script adapted lumpily from a novel by Lois Duncan.
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And now I'm off to lumpily frost my son's lopsided Lego cake...
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Inside it, sewn lumpily into the lining, were two small packs of something.
Unpretty Sharon Carter Rogers 2008
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Inside it, sewn lumpily into the lining, were two small packs of something.
Unpretty Sharon Carter Rogers 2008
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Fascinated by this example of technique chasing technology, of software trailing hardware, I watched our pixelated planet, a spinning blue globe forced continually to reassemble itself as blocks of Atlantic cloud moved lumpily forward.
A Space in Time 2002
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Fascinated by this example of technique chasing technology, of software trailing hardware, I watched our pixelated planet, a spinning blue globe forced continually to reassemble itself as blocks of Atlantic cloud moved lumpily forward.
A Space in Time 2002
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Prepared foods in all shades of brown poured lumpily into burnished steel pans: a removable feast of sweet-and-sour pork, sesame chicken, cubed roasted eggplant, and myriad other bite-size delights.
The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003
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