Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lolling manner.

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  • adverb In a lolling manner.

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  • adverb So as to loll; in a lazy, relaxed attitude.

Etymologies

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lolling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Ibises half-lollingly posed on some old trunk, and gray herons motionless on one leg, solemn flamingoes who from a distance looked like red umbrellas scattered in the foliage, and phenicopters of every color, enlivened the temporary morass.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • Here at the desk very soon after supper-time the Doctor had joined him, and with an unusual expression of leisure and friendliness had settled down lollingly on the other side of the fireplace with his great square-toed shoes nudging the bright, brassy edge of the fender, and his big meerschaum pipe puffing the whole bleak room most deliciously, tantalizingly full of forbidden tobacco smoke.

    Molly Make-Believe Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • Ibises half-lollingly posed on some old trunk, and gray herons motionless on one leg, solemn flamingoes who from a distance looked like red umbrellas scattered in the foliage, and phenicopters of every color, enlivened the temporary morass.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866

  • And the youth appears to have lost all control not only of the animal but himself; all energy to act, sitting lollingly in his saddle, as if torpid, or half-asleep!

    Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

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