lumpily
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4ADJ.
fluffy, mere
VERB + LUMPILY
hung, sat
LUMPILY + NOUN
clothes, mass
PREP.
down, in
Definitions
adv
In a lumpy manner, with lumps.
I had no idea that anything in the shape of a horse could be so limp as that, either living or dead. His wild mane hung down lumpily, a mere mass of inanimate horsehair; his aggressive ears had collapsed, but as he went swaying slowly across the front of the bridge I noticed an astute gleam in his dreamy, half-closed eye.
An hour later, he had paid about $3.25, been talked through the workings of a small bank of stainless-steel machines, and was leaving with a bag of fluffy if lumpily folded clothes.
Like a lump; awkwardly, heavily, ponderously.
He'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair.
“You’ll feel better when you’ve drunk this’m,” said the parlourmaid lumpily, pouring out some tea.
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3I had no idea that anything in the shape of a horse could be so limp as that, either living or dead. His wild mane hung down lumpily, a mere mass of inanimate horsehair; his aggressive ears had collap
WiktionaryAn hour later, he had paid about $3.25, been talked through the workings of a small bank of stainless-steel machines, and was leaving with a bag of fluffy if lumpily folded clothes.
WiktionaryHe'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair.
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