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lopingly

lopingly adverb: with a loping motion; with long, easy strides.

Adverb

lopingly (comparative more lopingly, superlative most lopingly)

  1. With a loping motion; with long, easy strides.
    • From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 332

Forms of lopingly

comparativemore lopingly
superlativemost lopingly

Origin of lopingly

From loping + -ly.

Questions about lopingly

What does lopingly mean?
Lopingly means with a loping motion; with long, easy strides.
What part of speech is lopingly?
Lopingly is an adverb.

Words near lopingly in the dictionary

  1. Lopiccolos
  2. Lopik
  3. lopinavir
  4. loping
  5. Lopingian
  6. lopingly
  7. LoPinto
  8. LoPintos
  9. lopirazepam
  10. lopolith
  11. lopolithic

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