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shruggingly

shruggingly adverb: with a shrugging gesture.

Adverb

shruggingly (comparative more shruggingly, superlative most shruggingly)

  1. With a shrugging gesture.
    • But the young girl discards it, displeased by its scent, and the rose is tossed to the ground and hardly noticed by the student as he shruggingly steps over the nightingale’s body.2007 June 11, Jennifer Dunning, “The Night Christopher Wheeldon Met Oscar Wilde”, in New York Times

Forms of shruggingly

comparativemore shruggingly
superlativemost shruggingly

Origin of shruggingly

From shrugging + -ly.

Questions about shruggingly

What does shruggingly mean?
Shruggingly means with a shrugging gesture.
What part of speech is shruggingly?
Shruggingly is an adverb.

Words near shruggingly in the dictionary

  1. shruggers
  2. shruggie
  3. shruggies
  4. shrugging
  5. shrugging off
  6. shruggingly
  7. shruggings
  8. shruggy
  9. shrugs
  10. shrugs off
  11. Shrum

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