linger
verb (used without object)
to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave.
lingeringly
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a word derived from
linger.
Example Sentences
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When these displaced, grief-laden men lingeringly intersect late in the novel, nothing really changes in terms of the plot but everything changes in terms of the book’s spiritual design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
I'd like to have a relationship with his child, and for my children to know their cousin, but contact with my brother is always deeply, lingeringly awful.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
Notably, the record’s tendency to look at women – lingeringly, lovingly – extended to Marling herself.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2017
He then gave lingeringly searching gazes into our eyes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2012
He takes his hand away, lazily almost, lingeringly, this is not the last word as far as he’s concerned.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
