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  • adverb In a bloated manner.

Etymologies

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bloated +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The Times of London's Philip Kemp, who described Mr. Littell's book as "bloatedly inept," called "its reverential reception across the Channel barely comprehensible."

    Le Mot Juste Tobias Grey 2009

  • Well, Peter Kemp, fiction editor of The Sunday Times assures us that The Kindly Ones is “so bloatedly inept that its reverential reception across the Channel seems barely comprehensible.”

    Our Critic's Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Jonathan Littell Ties Critics in Knots with The Kindly Ones 2009

  • More and moreare becoming so sick at heart over the way the Democrats bow to the monied interests that finance their bloatedly expensive campaigns that some post diatribe sans thoughtfulness, myself included.

    Dems Must Embrace Their Power They Have NOW to End The War: but First Must Overcome Their Fear 2007

  • More and moreare becoming so sick at heart over the way the Democrats bow to the monied interests that finance their bloatedly expensive campaigns that some post diatribe sans thoughtfulness, myself included.

    Dems Must Embrace Their Power They Have NOW to End The War: but First Must Overcome Their Fear 2007

  • South Sea Pagoda Tree and become bloatedly wealthy in a year or so.

    The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

  • We suffer from too much government all of it bloatedly extravagant and wasteful, virtually none of it consistently delivering meaningful results.

    Capitalists@Work 2010

  • A private sector which is shrinking because the over-spending monopoly government sector is bloatedly growing.

    Press of Atlantic City: Editorials 2010

  • The Sunday Times assures us that The Kindly Ones is "so bloatedly inept that its reverential reception across the Channel seems barely comprehensible."

    Home | The New York Observer 2009

  • The third time he asked, I bloatedly gasped, "I continue to be unable to think about eating another thing," meaning - if you offer me a wafer-thin mint, I will not be responsible for the offal dripping from the chandelier.

    Baltiblogs 2009

  • The third time he asked, I bloatedly gasped, "I continue to be unable to think about eating another thing," meaning - if you offer me a wafer-thin mint, I will not be responsible for the offal dripping from the chandelier.

    Your Neighborhood Librarian 2009

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