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- adverb In an
arthritic fashion: in a way that is characteristic of a person witharthritis
Etymologies
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Examples
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Taken on its own terms, Slow Love is a compelling and often funny addition to that burgeoning literary subset of autobiography: namely, women's memoirs about being knocked down in midlife and, painfully, arthritically, figuring out a way to get up again.
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She touched the wall slowly, arthritically, and a section slid open with a grating crunch.
Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008
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Monday I woke with my knees throbbing — both arthritically and empathically — and, despite the sunshine streaming through my bedroom window, felt shrouded in gloom.
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Her arms moved arthritically, but she caught his massive head in her hands.
Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008
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Chances are that in 2012, we'll still be watching an ancient Tina Turner or Mick Jagger writhe and wriggle, arthritically, across a concert stage in London or Tokyo.
Young At Heart 2007
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The room has no windows, and an inadequate standing FAN oscillates arthritically.
July 2006 2006
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The room has no windows, and an inadequate standing FAN oscillates arthritically.
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Some nights I slept for four or five hours — five was my record, I think — and woke in a slurry of dander, which Diane would clean from the blood-pocked bed while I shifted arthritically to a bedside chair.
Spin 2005
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The visitors watched an elder arthritically remove his shoes, then enter.
Wolves Eat Dogs Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 2004
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His arthritically warped hands rattled the cup and saucer as he placed it in front of her.
Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001
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