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  • adverb In an oozing manner.

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oozing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Wired responded in oozingly self-serving fashion, in a two-pronged attack on Greenwald that Greenwald subsequently took apartin meticulous fashion.

    The Government's Case Against Julian Assange Is Falling Apart Jason Linkins 2011

  • Their material may have originated in the southwest, but all that varnish transforms what may be a nice desert-varnished stone into something oozingly organic.

    Regretsy – Gag Gift 2010

  • This is physical poetry, performative and sculptural; this in fact IS a kind of lung inflating and re-inflating, or to be more oozingly lyrical, wings beating you could see the poems on the page in that way if you need to see something so literal...

    Carla Harryman Lemon Hound 2007

  • This is physical poetry, performative and sculptural; this in fact IS a kind of lung inflating and re-inflating, or to be more oozingly lyrical, wings beating you could see the poems on the page in that way if you need to see something so literal...

    Archive 2007-08-01 Lemon Hound 2007

  • While in our current climate, this would seem to be a thinly veneered commentary on existing wars particularly given the racial politics as mostly Caucasian Spartans face an enemy of color and often, apparent disabilities, it really seems to be the artist's cri de couer against those who would subvert his vision, particularly in the case of slimy sell-outs like the oozingly slippery Theron, played by Dominic "Spice World" West.

    Review: 300 K. A. Laity 2007

  • It started in his head and began to work oozingly downward.

    A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

  • The mire closed oozingly around him, almost to his middle, and he toiled through it, unable to lift his legs free from its embrace, by the sheer onward pressure of his body.

    The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1835

  • The flesh was bracingly vermillion and oozingly succulent - even the discreet accompaniments were not needed when the bird packed this much flavour.

    Evening Standard - Home Richard Godwin 2011

  • One can express all sorts of outrage over the Obama administration's depressingly predictable defense of the Israelis, even at the cost of isolating ourselves from the rest of the world, but ultimately, on some level, wouldn't it have been even more indefensible -- or at least oozingly hypocritical -- if the U.S. had condemned Israel?

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010

  • One can express all sorts of outrage over the Obama administration’s depressingly predictable defense of the Israelis, even at the cost of isolating ourselves from the rest of the world, but ultimately, on some level, wouldn’t it have been even more indefensible — or at least oozingly hypocritical — if the U.S. had condemned Israel?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010

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