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spittingly

spittingly adverb: in a spitting (uttering something violently) manner.

Adverb

spittingly (comparative more spittingly, superlative most spittingly)

  1. In a spitting (uttering something violently) manner.
    • Through taut mouth-slit, in a very low voice, but spittingly, she said, “Don’t touch me.”[…]Her posture didn’t alter, but her lips arched and the words were spat out: “Why don’t you strap me and stick pins in me? They used to do that.”1952, Fritz Leiber, “Conjure Wife”, in Witches Three, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, Inc., page 28
    • ‘My God, I was a fool to marry you,’ she spat out.[…]‘There was no need,’ she continued slowly, spittingly, deliberately, ‘to throw my father’s gold cuff-links in the Thames.’1981, A. N. Wilson, Who Was Oswald Fish?, Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 305

Forms of spittingly

comparativemore spittingly
superlativemost spittingly

Origin of spittingly

From spitting + -ly.

Questions about spittingly

What does spittingly mean?
Spittingly means in a spitting (uttering something violently) manner.
What part of speech is spittingly?
Spittingly is an adverb.

Words near spittingly in the dictionary

  1. spitting spiders
  2. spitting straight facts
  3. spitting tacks
  4. spitting the dummy
  5. spitting up
  6. spittingly
  7. spittings
  8. spittle
  9. spittlebug
  10. spittlebugs
  11. spittled

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