Definitions
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- adv. With a stooping posture.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a stooping manner or position; with a bending of the body forward.
Etymologies
Examples
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And the stalwart young negro, hooking his arms well under the legs of his rider, got up stoopingly, gave a toss and a jolt to get him into the right position, and walked off with him.
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Before he sat down where she was going to put him, he stood stoopingly, and frowned at the waters of the cove lifting from the foot of the lawn that sloped to it before the house.
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The place was so startlingly alive with that dead woman on a score of canvases in the character in which he had always painted her, that I could scarcely keep from calling out; but I went about, pretending to examine the several Madonnas, and speaking rubbish about them, while he stood stoopingly in the midst of them like the little withered old man he looked.
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Stopping beside a bank of reeds at last, the figure rose stoopingly, and drew a gun from between its feet and the bottom of the boat.
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"Bless my soul, and curse the foul fiend's," cried Bunger, stoopingly walking round Ahab, and like a dog, strangely snuffing;
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'Bless my soul, and curse the foul fiend's, 'cried Bunger, stoopingly walking round Ahab, and like a dog, strangely snuffing;' this man's blood -- bring the thermometer; -- it's at the boiling point!
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He’s got hunky shoulders, but he moves stiffly, stoopingly, stupidly.
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"Bless my soul, and curse the foul fiend's," cried Bunger, stoopingly walking round Ahab, and like a dog, strangely snuffing; "this man's blood -- bring the thermometer!
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