Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a flitting manner.

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

  • adverb In a flitting manner.

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  • adverb With a flitting motion.

Etymologies

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flitting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The possibility of ransom flittingly crossed your mind, you must confess, but, hey, you aren't that kind of girl.

    Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

  • Or maybe that saved them, Kenmuir thought flittingly, as he had often thought before.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Or maybe that saved them, Kenmuir thought flittingly, as he had often thought before.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • He guessed flittingly that that was not quite by chance.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • He guessed flittingly that that was not quite by chance.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • Then came rural scenes of almost every character, with a lad and a girl moving flittingly through them -- laughing and kissing in the lanes among the brambles, drifting together everywhere, sweethearting through it all.

    Drolls From Shadowland

  • She thought, flittingly, how Marietta would laugh at her manufacturing anything romantic out of the commonplace facts of the insignificant episode, but even as she turned away from her sister's imagined mocking smile, she felt an odd certainty that to Rankin there was also a glamour about their doings.

    The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • Bar-parlours and billiard-rooms saw him but rarely and flittingly.

    Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He pointed, flittingly as it were, with his little finger to the slope of her neck.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • He pointed, flittingly as it were, with his little finger to the slope of her neck.

    Sandra Belloni — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

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