Did you perchance mean slouching?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. With a slouching posture or motion.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with a slouching gait or posture
Etymologies
- slouching + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I like how they seem to be shot on Polaroid and just look sort of unglamorous and slouchingly sexual.”
“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.”
“It was not necessary for him to carry himself slouchingly in her presence and he looked glowing and noble.”
“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.”
“There is no sense in doing it slouchingly; nor is there even any liberty.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Port Royal is an infant town just springing into commercial activity, under the influence of slowly reviving commerce; and the negro slouchingly tills the soil and lounges in the sun on the shores from which the tide of revolution has swept his late master.”
“The negroes slouchingly disposed themselves about the store and the overseer's "mansion," keeping at a respectful distance from the kitchen, where sat the overseer himself, surrounded by his dogs.”
“He appeared to walk slouchingly, as if held up from above by straps under his shoulders, as much as supported by the plain below.”
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