flit
verb (used without object)
to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along.
flittingly
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a word derived from
flit.
Example Sentences
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The book seems flittingly sincere as a grief chronicle.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2018
No author should be able to get away with so woolly an excursion into meta-land, not at such length or so flittingly.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2015
He is lightly, and, as it were, airily and but grazingly seated in, or rather flittingly tenanting an old-fashioned chair of Malacca.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Part of it has been utilised as a stamper’s warehouse; had it received the respect due to its associations, it might flittingly have been a town Museum, or some such public institution.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood
Bar-parlours and billiard-rooms saw him but rarely and flittingly.
From Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages by Rudyard Kipling
