lumpishly
lumpishly adverb: in a lumpish manner.
Adverb
lumpishly (comparative more lumpishly, superlative most lumpishly)
- In a lumpish manner.
- Millicent. Construe more charitably, I beseech you,
My Virgin blushes.
Testy. ’Tis your sullenness;
Would you have brided it so lumpishly
With your spruce younker, that fine silken beggar,
Whose Land lies in your Husbands counting house,
Or the most part.1640, Richard Brome, The English Moor, in Five New Playes, London: A. Crook, 1659, Act I, Scene 3, p. 12 - The men at arms or heavy-armed soldiery of the modern European armies, were so completely clad in massy steel; that it seemed as if the warriour thus armed, and then mounted on horseback, or placed in the field of fight, would scarcely be able either to advance or retire, or to do any thing else...1797, Robert Heron, A New General History of Scotland, Edinburgh: R. Morison & Son et al., Volume III, Book IV, Section II, p. 246
- Millicent. Construe more charitably, I beseech you,
Examples of lumpishly in a sentence
- He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I:
- He stood there almost voiceless, lumpishly ugly with his face yellow and creased after the sleepless night, and his birthmark like a smear of dirt.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 19”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers...
Forms of lumpishly
| comparative | more lumpishly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most lumpishly |
Origin of lumpishly
From lumpish + -ly.
Questions about lumpishly
- What does lumpishly mean?
- Lumpishly means in a lumpish manner.
- How do you use lumpishly in a sentence?
- He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.
- What part of speech is lumpishly?
- Lumpishly is an adverb.
Words near lumpishly in the dictionary
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