Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a limping or halting manner; lamely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a limping manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
limping manner; with a limp.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Before she could convince herself otherwise, she dashed limpingly back to the broken skylight and dropped a coin to the floor below.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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He thought so, and was very slow in turning limpingly about towards the door.
Initials Only 2003
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She ran limpingly to the young man's feet, chirping and squawking.
The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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When Hyd na had flown limpingly into the Vale to fetch help, the Vale's own Healer had timidly come out of protection to treat them and bandage them, then had scuttled back to safety like a frightened mouse.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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When Hyd na had flown limpingly into the Vale to fetch help, the Vale's own Healer had timidly come out of protection to treat them and bandage them, then had scuttled back to safety like a frightened mouse.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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His article gets under way, rather limpingly, with two errors of fact.
Nihilism Scott, Michael P. 1965
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Yet when a man passes through great times, or faces action such as few dream on, there awakes within him the desire to set down, even limpingly, his part in those acts so that those who come after him to warm his high seat, lift his sword, light the fire on his hearth, may better understand what he and his fellows wrought that they might do these same things after the passing of time.
Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965
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Sometimes it ran limpingly on three legs, a forelimb held upcurved; again, stumbling and bent over, on two.
Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965
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If I go, so may I prove that I am a man, even if I go limpingly.
Key Out of Time Andre Norton 1958
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But he was able to stand, and, although limpingly, to walk.
The Boy Scout Aviators George Durston
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