Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a sauntering manner; idly; leisurely.

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  • adverb With a casual, sauntering gait.

Etymologies

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sauntering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And as I sat and watched the Mayor go saunteringly down the street, with his crustiness carried like a child on his shoulder, which it delighted him to have knocked off, so that he could philosophize in the restoring of it to its position, suddenly a realization of the relation of

    The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • Yet saunteringly she stepped to the show-case, glancing airily about.

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

  • They went saunteringly along under the great trees, rather silent both of them after that.

    The End of a Coil Susan Warner 1852

  • Amidst the crowd, as it streamed saunteringly along, were two spectators; strangers to the place, as was notably proved by the attention they excited, and the broad jokes their dress and appearance provoked from the rustic wits, -- jokes which they took with amused good-humour, and sometimes retaliated with a zest which had already made them very popular personages.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Amidst the crowd, as it streamed saunteringly along, were two spectators; strangers to the place, as was notably proved by the attention they excited, and the broad jokes their dress and appearance provoked from the rustic wits, -- jokes which they took with amused good-humour, and sometimes retaliated with a zest which had already made them very popular personages.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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