Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • By creeping; slowly; with the motion of an insect or a reptile.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb By creeping, moving stealthily and slowly; insidiously; cunningly.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

creeping +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And Amy Chua pokes at the creepingly personal justification for our parenting decisions and our other decisions.

    State of the Union: Competitiveness, the Super Bowl, and Amy Chua Alexandra Petri 2011

  • However, Finley's voice generally lacks the dark quality with which Fischer-Dieskau could cloak his sound when required, and which Britten exploits in settings such as the creepingly chromatic A Poison Tree andAh Sun-flower.

    Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, etc 2010

  • In addition to a magnifying effect that shortsightedness seems to have, people like me can also creep up creepingly close to the things we want to look at and still focus properly.

    Archive 2009-03-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • In addition to a magnifying effect that shortsightedness seems to have, people like me can also creep up creepingly close to the things we want to look at and still focus properly.

    How on earth did they do it? a stitch in time 2009

  • Or have our years of accepting torturous treatment for young or addicted Americans inured us beyond outrage and lulled us into creepingly, ineluctably accepting the unacceptable?

    Maia Szalavitz: How Torture Became Law, How Outrage Dies 2008

  • They are creepingly (ph) widening their zone of occupation.

    CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2008 2008

  • Head of poor … BRADY: After all of these years and many albums, Morrisey remains capable of being excitingly, creepingly strange.

    Morrissey: 'Leader of the Tormentors' 2006

  • It was creepingly, annoyingly, stullyfyingly dull.

    The almost certainly not last post on Voltron mariness 2005

  • And some of the women are worried that they're going to slowly have to start wearing the veil, that it's going to creepingly become ...

    CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2005 2005

  • POSES: Personalization is becoming creepingly popular, because it ` s another way for the bride and grown make their guests stand out in a special way.

    CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2005 2005

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