Definitions
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- adverb In a floating manner.
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- adverb In a
floating manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fonseca, whose musicianship has been heralded by the UK's Evening Standard as "muscular ... percussively rhythmic and floatingly melodic," is touring in support of his new recording, Akokan, scheduled for U.S. release on February 16th, 2010.
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The real surprise is that this unexpected step from comfy balladry to something more interesting sounds quite natural – the only element that doesn't fit is the free-floatingly doomy lyrics, which foretell unspecified personal and global calamities.
Take That: Progress - review Caroline Sullivan 2010
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Fonseca, whose musicianship has been heralded by the UK's Evening Standard as "muscular ... percussively rhythmic and floatingly melodic," is touring in support of his new recording, Akokan, scheduled for U.S. release on February 16th, 2010.
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Fonseca, whose musicianship has been heralded by the UK's Evening Standard as "muscular ... percussively rhythmic and floatingly melodic," is touring in support of his new recording, Akokan, scheduled for U.S. release on February 16th, 2010.
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Consider this: if you have a really horrible day--if you wake up in a foul mood and everything rubs you the wrong way and you're just free-floatingly moody and irritable and unhappy--then remember: The only reason you notice this bad mood is that you were in a *good* mood yesterday.
Not a good mood post-doc 2006
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Jim saw them floatingly, a line of dancing raindrops, tracing their lenient curve towards him.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Jim saw them floatingly, a line of dancing raindrops, tracing their lenient curve towards him.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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St. Simon's voice sounded harsh in Danley's earphones, and he felt irritatingly helpless poised floatingly above the ground that way.
Anchorite Randall Garrett 1957
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Then, floatingly, not walking, it seemed to Miss Theodosia, the mist of blurry white drew nearer.
Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings Annie Hamilton Donnell
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It had come down softly, floatingly, with all the winds of the prairies hushed, every flake consisting of one or two large, flat crystals only, which, on account of the nearly saturated air, had gone on growing by condensation till they touched the ground.
Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove
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