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  • adverb So as to drip.

Etymologies

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dripping +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • So when I heard about the “drippingly juicy” roast beef and gravy sandwich from Eating in Translation at Best Bagel & Coffee (W 35th St.btw. 7th+8th), I obviously had to get my hands on it.

    Best Bagel Rocks The Roast Beef-Gravy Boat | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

  • Iran is also the most enigmatic, fascinating, and challenging nation, as drippingly sensuous as it can be violent; with a life-loving people imbued with a 2,500-year history of Persian pride, art, poetry, and passion.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • The white confection of a garden display was just drippingly sweet.

    Living A Dream-Meeting In Malvern « Fairegarden 2010

  • And all of it will done in the drippingly cynical name of the poor, whose poverty will assuredly remain the untreated cause of their numerous gaps, from achievement to health to job to prison, for yet another generation that remains preoccupied by "bold education reform."

    Archive 2009-01-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • And all of it will done in the drippingly cynical name of the poor, whose poverty will assuredly remain the untreated cause of their numerous gaps, from achievement to health to job to prison, for yet another generation that remains preoccupied by "bold education reform."

    Corporate Vouchers and the Smell of Doing "Good" Jim Horn 2009

  • So even though my post came off as drippingly sarcastic, there was an element of sincerity to it.

    Oh wait! EAGEAGEAG 2009

  • She climbed up and out on the chromium ladder at the deep end and walked drippingly to the little structure that contained the filtering mechanism and the heater, here of utilitarian design and screened by bushes, not the miniature Swiss chalet her father had had specially designed and conspicuously situated.

    The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008

  • But too many of these songs end up sounding overly clean and canned and drippingly sentimental.

    Vince Gill's Four-Disc Musical Journey 2006

  • And even if they thought Bush and Reagan were ideological soulmates, the "memoriam" page on the re-election homepage is so gutlessly smarmy, so acid-drippingly cynical, that I would hope most rational humans would see it for what it is: the pathetic lather-face of a boy pretending to shave with his daddy's razor.

    soft-shell crab roll 2004

  • And even if they thought Bush and Reagan were ideological soulmates, the "memoriam" page on the re-election homepage is so gutlessly smarmy, so acid-drippingly cynical, that I would hope most rational humans would see it for what it is: the pathetic lather-face of a boy pretending to shave with his daddy's razor.

    hate, Hate, HATE!!! 2004

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