- a variation of withershins.
widdershins
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Sandy Dennis, with her wiggly mouth and widdershins acting style, might as well have a curl in the middle of her forehead.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it began, their reporters would take down everything that was said, writing widdershins, very diligently, very slowly, in their solemn picture language.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
And it is for that that I dance widdershins.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis
And, lo! the nurse fell upon the beach as it were two handfuls of dead leaves, and the wind whirled them widdershins, and the sand-lice hopped between.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis
As soon as they started Joby saw that the whole thing was going around widdershins; and his brother stood up under the naphtha-lamp and pulled out a sextant and began to take observations.
From Wandering Heath by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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