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flailingly

flailingly adverb: with flailing motions.

Adverb

flailingly (comparative more flailingly, superlative most flailingly)

  1. With flailing motions.
    • I splashed flailingly around in the pool until the lifeguard dragged me out.

Forms of flailingly

comparativemore flailingly
superlativemost flailingly

Origin of flailingly

From flailing + -ly.

Questions about flailingly

What does flailingly mean?
Flailingly means with flailing motions.
What part of speech is flailingly?
Flailingly is an adverb.

Words near flailingly in the dictionary

  1. flail tanks
  2. flailed
  3. flailed about
  4. flailing
  5. flailing about
  6. flailingly
  7. flailings
  8. flaillike
  9. flails
  10. flails about
  11. flailsome

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