Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a fleeting manner.

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

  • adverb In a fleeting manner; swiftly.

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

  • adverb in a fleeting manner
  • adverb transiently

Etymologies

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fleeting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • They were undoubtedly inhibited, as I was occasionally to be in the years to come, by a sense that schizophrenia required too much explaining and was too serious and hurtful to be referred to fleetingly.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • They were undoubtedly inhibited, as I was occasionally to be in the years to come, by a sense that schizophrenia required too much explaining and was too serious and hurtful to be referred to fleetingly.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • The meeting is billed as a "getting-to-know-you" session for the pair who have only met "fleetingly" in the past.

    Lori's A.M. Buzz: Got an emergency? Lori Aratani 2010

  • Or, since the kid likely never lived who used a filthy word just "fleetingly," perhaps the Supreme Court will consider issuing a second ban on the wall-to-wall use of s - and f-words in the schoolyard.

    Norman Lear: Dear Justice Scalia... 2009

  • Or, since the kid likely never lived who used a filthy word just "fleetingly," perhaps the Supreme Court will consider issuing a second ban on the wall-to-wall use of s - and f-words in the schoolyard.

    Still focused on the trees... 2009

  • Last month, they met 'fleetingly' at the Rothschild family's £30million estate on Corfu, just a week before it emerged that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi could be released from jail in Scotland because he is dying of prostate cancer.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • Russell said that he and European auction company executive Henry Beeby, who is SITA's chairman, had discussed the confusion over the new guidelines "fleetingly" and that it probably would be addressed during SITA's next meeting, which is scheduled for November.

    Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com By 2009

  • Patches of pale blue appeared fleetingly, punch holes of sanity beneath the roiling storm clouds.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • At that same meeting, the Queen took Burrell into her confidence—if only fleetingly.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • An echo rang off the cold metal of the hull, passing fleetingly, as if it had been the mutter of a ghost dead long ago.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge! 2009

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