droop
verb (used without object)
to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
droopingly
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a word derived from
droop.
Example Sentences
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The man goes droopingly downstairs and feeds the unicorn a lily.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her eyes were dull, and the lids hung droopingly, weighed down by twenty-four hours of wakefulness by the bedside of her sick teacher.
From Round the Block by John Bell Bouton
But when she came to the place where she always crossed the street she only stood there an instant and then, a little more slowly, a little more droopingly, walked on.
From Lifted Masks; stories by Susan Glaspell
"I thought I saw the Curtises also," suggested the bereaved woman droopingly.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
The word of triumph fainted from his tongue; That hand, so raised, how droopingly it hung!
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
