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In contrast to most of its peers, the well-acted yet droopily paced eight-part miniseries challenges its audience to think more critically about its nonfiction predecessor, the storytelling choices it made and why.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2022

None of this is news to the droopily Googling insomniac who, fearing obesity, heart disease, accident and poverty, is subjected to yet further sleep-skewering anxiety.

From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2018

I was very unhappy and wrote droopily sad poems about death and isolation that reflected the way I felt.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

She sat droopily in her chair for a long while, pondering mankind and womankind and their mutual dependence and incompatibility.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry