drawl
verb (used with or without object)
to say or speak in a slow manner, usually prolonging the vowels.
drawlingly
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a word derived from
drawl.
Example Sentences
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Why," she drawlingly asks her sister-in-law, "did y' give dawgs' names to all your kiddies?
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2011
Miss Causton's voice had formerly been drawlingly slow, but it came back quickly enough now, and altogether without surprise.
From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
He had somehow got hold of the regalia of the order and drawlingly announced himself as the great panjandrum who had come to take part.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer
"Well, in my instance, I had to come to some wiser spirit than myself to get my bearings," answered Van drawlingly.
From The Furnace of Gold by J. N. Marchand
"I reckon I'll do somethin'," said the sheriff, drawlingly.
From The Trail Horde by Charles Alden Seltzer
