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wallowingly

wallowingly adverb: so as to wallow.

Adverb

wallowingly (not comparable)

  1. So as to wallow.
    • It was nothing less than Leoville de Vinchelez's strange catapult-carrying catamaran, barely under control and listing to port as it sailed wallowingly towards the headland […]2007, Sinclair Forrest, The Dragon of Angur, page 346
    • She had stormed dramatically off and got on the first train she saw at Waterloo station and rode it the whole way down to Brighton, taking a room in a seedy B and B. But then, after a nap, still feeling wobbly and also wallowingly sorry for herself, Diantha climbed off the bed and sat down at the...2009, Jane Pattison, Charles and Diantha, page 327

Origin of wallowingly

From wallowing + -ly.

Questions about wallowingly

What does wallowingly mean?
Wallowingly means so as to wallow.
What part of speech is wallowingly?
Wallowingly is an adverb.

Words near wallowingly in the dictionary

  1. wallower
  2. wallowers
  3. wallowest
  4. walloweth
  5. wallowing
  6. wallowingly
  7. wallowings
  8. wallowish
  9. wallows
  10. wallowsome
  11. wallowy

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