Definitions

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  • adverb With a lurching motion.

Etymologies

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lurching +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The black market would immediately and lurchingly adjust to where that gently used sparkle pony costs somewhat less than $25.

    How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony 2010

  • I don't want the ground to keep moving so stomach-lurchingly all the time - I want to stand on steady ground and be still again.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

  • With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • He hit Play and the image slowed, lurchingly, restoring itself to colour a moment before sound returned. ot, I had instructions to open it.

    Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

  • In moments the twitching corpse of the soldier was being hoisted, lurchingly, into the air.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • In moments the twitching corpse of the soldier was being hoisted, lurchingly, into the air.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • He strained his neck but that just made everything in his field of vision swim lurchingly in front of him.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • Amazed, incredulous, forgetting for an instant the field-glasses in his hand, he stared blankly from under squinting lids at the incredible object that crawled lurchingly through the shimmering, glittering desert atmosphere.

    Shoe-Bar Stratton Joseph Bushnell Ames 1903

  • And the assistant lurchingly stuffed his stakes away.

    Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

  • With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

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