creep
verb (used without object)
to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
creepingly
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a word derived from
creep.
Example Sentences
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ME: I’d rather eat nails than brave the mall on Black Friday or Grey Thursday, as Thanksgiving is now creepingly – and creepily – called.
From Time ● Oct. 10, 2013
Change, it turns out, comes creepingly at the Field of Dreams Movie Site.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2011
But she has begun a pilgrimage of the soul, at first so creepingly tentative that she seems to be motionless.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is something creepingly malignant in the look which shoots out from his glance, like that of the rattlesnake, when coiled and partially concealed in the brake.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms
They loitered to and fro on the wide gravel path, where grass and weeds encroached creepingly from the borders, and paused from time to time watching the sun as it went down.
From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Margaret Veley
