Definitions

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  • adverb In a squat manner, or while being squat

Etymologies

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squat +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Beyond, there are several low-rise apartment buildings, all sitting squatly in their uniformly boring brownness.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Jay 2007

  • Beyond, there are several low-rise apartment buildings, all sitting squatly in their uniformly boring brownness.

    Window Pain Jay 2007

  • A wooden cask of brandy sat squatly against the other wall, an old saber hanging incongruously above it.

    Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006

  • Once or twice she had turned squatly in her seat to look at him, her wide toad's mouth stretched in what he thought had been a gloating smile.

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

  • The one was short, squatly built, with short hair and was approximately 30 years of age.

    Children of Resistence 1988

  • The creature howled its wrath and pain as a fireball of jellied fuel engulfed the rough wet leather of its squatly amphibian body.

    The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987

  • Stumpy Niles was a squatly built man, needing the nearly two-inch riding heels on his boots to reach the five-foot-seven-inch mark.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • Stumpy Niles was a squatly built man, needing the nearly two-inch riding heels on his boots to reach the five-foot-seven-inch mark.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • Stumpy Niles was a squatly built man, needing the nearly two-inch riding heels on his boots to reach the five-foot-seven-inch mark.

    Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982

  • Stumpy Niles was a squatly built man, needing the nearly two-inch riding heels on his boots to reach the five-foot-seven-inch mark.

    Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982

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