Definitions

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  • adverb With a slouching posture or motion.

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  • adverb with a slouching gait or posture

Etymologies

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slouching +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I like how they seem to be shot on Polaroid and just look sort of unglamorous and slouchingly sexual.

    Archive 2007-09-01 N A 2007

  • I like how they seem to be shot on Polaroid and just look sort of unglamorous and slouchingly sexual.

    etc etc N A 2007

  • With all his intellectual culture, and his restless aspirations, his breast afforded him no thought so generous, no sentiment so poetic, as those with which the unlettered clown crept slouchingly homeward.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • It was not necessary for him to carry himself slouchingly in her presence and he looked glowing and noble.

    The Lost Prince 1914

  • One of them would have been a handsome lad if he had not carried himself slouchingly and walked with a street lad's careless shuffling gait.

    The Lost Prince 1914

  • There is no sense in doing it slouchingly; nor is there even any liberty.

    All Things Considered 1905

  • He walked wearily and slouchingly, stooping a little, as if he were too tired or bored to take the trouble of throwing back his shoulders.

    The Guests Of Hercules M. Leone Bracker 1901

  • Jabe Slocum and Brad Gibson lay extended slouchingly, their cowhide boots turned up to the sky; Dave Milliken, Steve Webster, and the others leaned back against the tree-trunk, smoking clay pipes, or hugging their knees and chewing blades of grass reflectively.

    The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • It was not necessary for him to carry himself slouchingly in her presence and he looked glowing and noble.

    The Lost Prince Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • One of them would have been a handsome lad if he had not carried himself slouchingly and walked with a street lad's careless shuffling gait.

    The Lost Prince Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

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