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  • adverb In a coughing manner.

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Examples

  • The "able seaman" took the reeking, nicotine soaked affair, placed it gingerly between his teeth, held a match to the bowl and coughingly emitted a cloud of ill-smelling smoke.

    Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

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