Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a stumbling or blundering manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a stumbling manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a stumbling way; unsteadily, haltingly.

Etymologies

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stumbling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • While Kansas school board members made national headlines in 1999 for their brief ban on the teaching of Darwinian evolution theory, Tucson school board member and Tea Party activist Michael Hicks propelled Tucson onto the forefront of national disgrace when he stumblingly read the motion to kill what educational experts have called "the nation's most innovative and successful academic and instructional program in Ethnic Studies at the secondary school level."

    Jeff Biggers: Day After in Tucson: As School Board Padlocks Program, Mexican American Studies Will Rise Again in Courts and 2012 Election Jeff Biggers 2012

  • While Kansas school board members made national headlines in 1999 for their brief ban on the teaching of Darwinian evolution theory, Tucson school board member and Tea Party activist Michael Hicks propelled Tucson onto the forefront of national disgrace when he stumblingly read the motion to kill what educational experts have called "the nation's most innovative and successful academic and instructional program in Ethnic Studies at the secondary school level."

    Jeff Biggers: Day After in Tucson: As School Board Padlocks Program, Mexican American Studies Will Rise Again in Courts and 2012 Election Jeff Biggers 2012

  • While Kansas school board members made national headlines in 1999 for their brief ban on the teaching of Darwinian evolution theory, Tucson school board member and Tea Party activist Michael Hicks propelled Tucson onto the forefront of national disgrace when he stumblingly read the motion to kill what educational experts have called "the nation's most innovative and successful academic and instructional program in Ethnic Studies at the secondary school level."

    Jeff Biggers: Day After in Tucson: As School Board Padlocks Program, Mexican American Studies Will Rise Again in Courts and 2012 Election Jeff Biggers 2012

  • While Kansas school board members made national headlines in 1999 for their brief ban on the teaching of Darwinian evolution theory, Tucson school board member and Tea Party activist Michael Hicks propelled Tucson onto the forefront of national disgrace when he stumblingly read the motion to kill what educational experts have called "the nation's most innovative and successful academic and instructional program in Ethnic Studies at the secondary school level."

    Jeff Biggers: Day After in Tucson: As School Board Padlocks Program, Mexican American Studies Will Rise Again in Courts and 2012 Election Jeff Biggers 2012

  • Imprisoned by its "Islamic" state-identity, the country is still in flux, stumblingly in search of other convictions.

    Tales of Love and Gore 2010

  • Steve stumblingly learns the ins and outs of cruising for sex with anonymous leather-clad bruisers.

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

  • Does it all end on a downer, on that scene of Hal Drunken hugging everyone in sight before staggering out into the night for a taxi back to his motel, to pack stumblingly, all the time thinking to himself, next year ... next year ...?

    Aye and Tomorrow Hal Duncan 2007

  • Does it all end on a downer, on that scene of Hal Drunken hugging everyone in sight before staggering out into the night for a taxi back to his motel, to pack stumblingly, all the time thinking to himself, next year ... next year ...?

    Archive 2007-11-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • Before we develop a cookie-cutter view of our fellow seekers, and begin to quietly judge those who deviate from our Yoga Journal cover model ideal as "not there yet", or "not advanced" let's all open our hearts along with our minds, and look at all your fellow students as you'd like them to view you: fully, stumblingly human -- and powerfully divine.

    Sadie Nardini: Is My Asana Too Fat? Yoga For The Rest Of Us (VIDEO) 2009

  • Smerconish said that he, in fact, as a Republican, supported the Obama approach to the hunt for Bin Laden -- to move immediately on actionable intelligence -- and in the talk that followed got McCain, stumblingly and unwittingly, to concede that he (McCain) also agreed with Obama.

    John Tomasic: The Tora Bora Of The Mind 2008

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