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- adverb In a
drippy way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a mawkish and emotional manner
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Examples
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The "Today" team plans to bid Shalit adieu tomorrow with what one assumes will be a drippily sentimental video montage ... and one also filled with loads of puns.
Gene Shalit: Bidding farewell to the punniest movie critic in history Jen Chaney 2010
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They are celebrating and even drippily expounding upon Kesler's love note, and are recommending it to all.
Midge Decter: The Mother Sheehan of the Right Glenn Greenwald 2005
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They are celebrating and even drippily expounding upon Kesler's love note, and are recommending it to all.
Archive 2005-11-01 Glenn Greenwald 2005
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An eetee landed on her back, then exploded drippily onto her armor.
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The "Today" team plans to bid Shalit adieu tomorrow with what one assumes will be a drippily sentimental video montage ... and one also filled with loads of puns.
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Helpfully, they had the words "Steps House" and an up arrow spray-painted drippily onto some of the stone treads.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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