Definitions
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- adverb In a way that
drags ; with a dragging motion. - adverb
slowly ; withreluctance , 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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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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."
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“The harpoon,” said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm — “is it safe?”
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She leaned draggingly upon his arm as they walked.
The Awakening 2000
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Mackie wasn't draggingly heavy, but we were walking on ice.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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