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  • adverb In a swerving way; with deviations; indirectly.

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swerving +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The poems are concerned with subjects ranging from the vicissitudes of love to how messed up the world is to how wasted the author is, which is to say that they swervingly plow that oversharing, oversincere land that is the sharecrop acreage of all world-class drunks.

    Small Press Poetry: A Summer Reading List 2010

  • The seemingly impassible road led swervingly down into a flatland where we saw the holy grail of swimming holes.

    Everything2 New Writeups 2009

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