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Glazed, monosyllabic, loungingly shell-suited, Mourinho wore the aggrieved expression of a man dragged from his bed to argue with the milkman.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2013

With what stupendous and untranslatable coolness he says this, and how loungingly he leads on to the women's side: making, as he goes, a kind of iron castanet of the key and the stair-rail!

From American Notes by Dickens, Charles

Curtain discloses Chalmers and Hubbard seated loungingly at the right front.

From Theft A Play In Four Acts by London, Jack

He looked down loungingly from a side window of the pilot-house.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

And so the three sat on in silence for a time, Mrs. De Peyster and Matilda taut with expectant fear, Mr. Pyecroft loungingly unconcerned.

From No. 13 Washington Square by Scott, Leroy