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
Another moment, and she moved noiselessly, almost creepingly to the little private door by which she had always entered the studio, and unlocking it, slipped out leaving the key in the lock.
From Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Corelli, Marie
I stood beside the silent, sombre river, As creepingly the tide came from the sea, I watched for my fair roses, but ah! never Did they come back to me.
From The Coast of Bohemia by Page, Thomas Nelson
