Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a decrepit manner; as one broken down by infirmities.
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- adverb In a
decrepit way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And for the last time cease and desist from sending anymore of these decrepitly incoherent four-hundred year-old fossils from its ex-vice presidency outpost who did not have the balls to run for president crapping all over the one who had the stones to seek victory and claim it.
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For one of them, in fact, it was positively his thirtieth birthday; poor soul, how decrepitly he flitted in front of motor trucks.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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Sam Tuk sat motionless, his hands concealed in his sleeves, bending decrepitly forward in his chair.
Dope Sax Rohmer 1921
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Shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea.
The Story of My Life Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 1903
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But soon he decrepitly emerged upon his knees, asking what brought us thither?
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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CC me on your missives if you like. disgraced professional simulator Francisco Toro, the Venezuelan 2002 coup supporter who wrote a decrepitly dishonest essay published by The New Republic today about Honduras.
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