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  • adverb In a floundering manner; with awkward struggles.

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floundering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Unlike armchair athletes, however, armchair screenwriters, if they have some independent literary reputation, are often allowed to professionalize their fantasy—which for the most part they do flounderingly.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • Unlike armchair athletes, however, armchair screenwriters, if they have some independent literary reputation, are often allowed to professionalize their fantasy—which for the most part they do flounderingly.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • Unlike armchair athletes, however, armchair screenwriters, if they have some independent literary reputation, are often allowed to professionalize their fantasy—which for the most part they do flounderingly.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • It finally becomes flounderingly portentous and pompously intoned, like Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea.

    Off-Centaur Miller, Jonathan 1963

  • "I doubt if I shall ever feel otherwise -- about her," he went on somewhat flounderingly.

    The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904

  • I don’t recall that I harbored this fantasy when I first began to write fiction; but I was led to it quickly enough, and have pursued it about as flounderingly as anyone well could, through a scriptwriting career that has been something less than perfervid.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • I don’t recall that I harbored this fantasy when I first began to write fiction; but I was led to it quickly enough, and have pursued it about as flounderingly as anyone well could, through a scriptwriting career that has been something less than perfervid.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • I don’t recall that I harbored this fantasy when I first began to write fiction; but I was led to it quickly enough, and have pursued it about as flounderingly as anyone well could, through a scriptwriting career that has been something less than perfervid.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

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