Definitions

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  • adverb In a way that drags; with a dragging motion.
  • adverb slowly; with reluctance, or as if held back

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a dragging manner

Etymologies

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dragging +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • They walked out past a large parabolic dune and it was so draggingly hot out here that the air seemed a form of physical hindrance.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They walked out past a large parabolic dune and it was so draggingly hot out here that the air seemed a form of physical hindrance.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They walked out past a large parabolic dune and it was so draggingly hot out here that the air seemed a form of physical hindrance.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Here it was warm, silent, draggingly monotonous; a few yards away across a band of blue shallow water, the cool shady mystery of tree-fringed beach and woodland-dotted meadow beckoned her.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Here it was warm, silent, draggingly monotonous; a few yards away across a band of blue shallow water, the cool shady mystery of tree-fringed beach and woodland-dotted meadow beckoned her.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • We've decided to work in those delicious windows between system crashes and "kernel panics," and managed to turn the beginning of the movie from "draggingly oblique" into "only-slightly-confusingly funny."

    11/20/02 A short respite of 2002

  • We've decided to work in those delicious windows between system crashes and "kernel panics," and managed to turn the beginning of the movie from "draggingly oblique" into "only-slightly-confusingly funny."

    11/20/02 This was one of 2002

  • “The harpoon,” said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm — “is it safe?”

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • She leaned draggingly upon his arm as they walked.

    The Awakening 2000

  • Mackie wasn't draggingly heavy, but we were walking on ice.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

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