dragging
adjective
extremely tired or slow, as in movement; lethargic; sluggish.
draggingly
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a word derived from
dragging.
Example Sentences
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And Khipil went in that state described by the poet, when we go draggingly, with remonstrating members, Knowing a dreadful strength behind, And a dark fate before.
From The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 2 by George Meredith
About four o'clock, on Friday morning, July 19th, she struck,—first draggingly, then hard and harder,—on Fire Island beach.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller
Seeing this he stooped again and this time grasped it beneath the arms; then slowly, draggingly, with halting step, began to move backward.
From At Fault by Kate Chopin
He glanced at it absently, and entered the hall slowly, draggingly, and was amazed to find Lord Turfleigh, in overcoat and hat, standing beside a pile of luggage.
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice
Instead of landing cleanly upon the other, he came down draggingly across the Boss' shoulders.
From Ralestone Luck by James S. Reid
