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failingly

failingly adverb: in a failing manner.

Adverb

failingly (comparative more failingly, superlative most failingly)

  1. In a failing manner.
    • I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]2007, Edward F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard, page 195

Forms of failingly

comparativemore failingly
superlativemost failingly

Origin of failingly

From failing + -ly.

Words formed from failingly

Questions about failingly

What does failingly mean?
Failingly means in a failing manner.
What part of speech is failingly?
Failingly is an adverb.

Words near failingly in the dictionary

  1. failing that
  2. failing up
  3. failing up the ladder
  4. failing upward
  5. failing upwards
  6. failingly
  7. failingness
  8. failings
  9. Failipino
  10. Failla
  11. Faillas

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