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  • verb Present participle of titubate.

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Examples

  • He sees penumbral visions of himself titubating fantastically through days and nights of space and stars.

    Chapter 36 2010

  • He sees penumbral visions of himself titubating fantastically through days and nights of space and stars.

    Chapter XXXVI 1913

  • I see him now, dim in the darkness, titubating in stupid wonder, good-naturedly essaying the role of peacemaker in that multitudinous scrap the significance of which he did not understand, and the really hurt expression on his face when he, unoffending he, was clutched at by many hands and dragged down in the thick of the press.

    Road-Kids and Gay-Cats 1907

  • I see him now, dim in the darkness, titubating in stupid wonder, good-naturedly essaying the role of peacemaker in that multitudinous scrap the significance of which he did not understand, and the really hurt expression on his face when he, unoffending he, was clutched at by many hands and dragged down in the thick of the press.

    Road-Kids and Gay-Cats 1907

  • He sees penumbral visions of himself titubating fantastically through days and nights of space and stars.

    John Barleycorn Jack London 1896

  • On certain days in the week he invariably came home with a very red face and a titubating walk; when Bessie received him angrily, he defended himself on the great plea of business necessities.

    The Nether World George Gissing 1880

  • If they drank abominably, then of course they would titubate abominably; and titubating abominably, inevitably they would spill in the same ratio.

    Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, May 15, 1864 (In Which He Discusses His Brother, Leonard, Who was Killed a Few Weeks Later at Cold Harbor) 1864

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