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liplessly

liplessly adverb: without lips.

Adverb

liplessly (not comparable)

  1. Without lips.
    • Five Horse Johnson grinned liplessly, exposing six slimy orange teeth, then fell sideways off his stool to the floor. Wesley finished his whisky and put two dollars on the bar. "This do it?" he asked the bartender, who nodded.2003, Barry Gifford, Thomas A. McCarthy, The rooster trapped in the reptile room, page 266

Origin of liplessly

From lipless + -ly.

Questions about liplessly

What does liplessly mean?
Liplessly means without lips.
What part of speech is liplessly?
Liplessly is an adverb.

Words near liplessly in the dictionary

  1. Lipkin
  2. Lipking
  3. Lipkings
  4. Lipkins
  5. lipless
  6. liplessly
  7. liplessness
  8. liplet
  9. liplets
  10. liplike
  11. lipline

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