Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an abortive or untimely manner; prematurely; imperfectly; ineffectually; as an abortion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an unfruitful manner
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Examples
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While we might take solace in our own anthropic prejudice, dismissing the nonsensical communiqués of such chatbots as nothing more than computerized gobbledygook, we might unwittingly miss a chance to study firsthand the babytalk of an embryonic sentience, struggling abortively to awaken from its own phylum of oblivion.
Poetic Machines 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Recently signing to star in the abortively named Due Date alongside saving-grace Robert Downey Jr., Galifianakis is currently in talks for Funny Story from Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
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Apparently on behest of Washington in July 2008 Zardari government abortively tried to put the powerful military-run spy agency, Inter Services
Capitulating Terms of the $4.5 Billion US aid to Pakistan 2009
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As we talked — about September 11, the war in Iraq, her time in the Senate, and (briefly, abortively) her husband — she showed little trace of the coldness that has long been ascribed to her.
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As we talked — about September 11, the war in Iraq, her time in the Senate, and (briefly, abortively) her husband — she showed little trace of the coldness that has long been ascribed to her.
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You mention in the piece that you spoke (“briefly, abortively”) about Bill.
Candidate Hillary 2006
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As we talked — about September 11, the war in Iraq, her time in the Senate, and (briefly, abortively) her husband — she showed little trace of the coldness that has long been ascribed to her.
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You mention in the piece that you spoke (“briefly, abortively”) about Bill.
Candidate Hillary 2006
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"I think you'll find that Eggy -- Mr. Edgworth -- was helping with inquiries, albeit abortively, all of Sunday and Sunday night."
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It was a little trickier to find her most recent online purchases-Selena abortively tried Amazon. com and Reel. com before finding a CD store with an account set up in Gilly's name.
Salem Falls Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2001
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