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slobberingly

slobberingly adverb: in a slobbering manner.

Adverb

slobberingly (comparative more slobberingly, superlative most slobberingly)

  1. In a slobbering manner.
    • This portrait was as good and satisfactory a likeness as I generally succeeded in making; but it was painted in a rather loose manner, which I at that time affected in imitation of [Francis] Alexander’s bold touch,—a style which I materially modified, after a critic in speaking of my portrait of...1891, Thomas Ball, chapter XIII, in My Threescore Years and Ten. An Autobiography., Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 93
    • Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XI, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular...

Forms of slobberingly

comparativemore slobberingly
superlativemost slobberingly

Origin of slobberingly

From slobbering + -ly.

Questions about slobberingly

What does slobberingly mean?
Slobberingly means in a slobbering manner.
What part of speech is slobberingly?
Slobberingly is an adverb.

Words near slobberingly in the dictionary

  1. slobberier
  2. slobberiest
  3. slobberin'
  4. slobberiness
  5. slobbering
  6. slobberingly
  7. slobberings
  8. slobberknocker
  9. slobberknockers
  10. slobbers
  11. slobbery

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