lubberly
Americanadjective
adverb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of lubberly
Example Sentences
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That fo’c’s’le is great As the place to relate How your lubberly cap’n’s an as’le.
From Washington Post
Time was when owning a houseboat was considered downright lubberly.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Big Lub" to other ball players and rock fighters in Cincinnati when he was a boy, William Howard Taft was large but not lubberly.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Plenty men think what I think. Sailing by book is a mighty lubberly business.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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