loitering
noun
the act of lingering aimlessly or as if aimlessly in or about a place.
loiteringly
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a word derived from
loitering.
Example Sentences
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He went ever more and more loiteringly, for his father did not appear.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
And a steamer leaves several times a day to take you there, gently and loiteringly, in the Venetian manner, in two hours, with pauses at odd little places en route.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley
At noon, in the brilliant sunshine, as I came loiteringly down the long slope from Doles Wood to the village, he overtook me.
From Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
She came at last, loiteringly with father Pierre and Albert Verheyden.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
How slowly and loiteringly it came, and how microscopic its first siftings!
From A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs
