sliding
adjective
rising or falling, increasing or decreasing, according to a standard or to a set of conditions.
slidingly
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a word derived from
sliding.
Example Sentences
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There already was gathered a black cloud of folk under the rickle of stones that runs slidingly down from the steep brow of Craigfacie.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Suppose Gail did go slidingly around explaining to everybody convincingly that everybody else was in love with her—suppose it was even true?
From The Wishing-Ring Man by Margaret Widdemer
Then, with a stealthy glance at Susan, she moved slidingly toward the door.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
For an instant, he almost could have prayed Isabel back into the wonder-world from which she had so slidingly emerged.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
And, when she danced—so slidingly, So near the ground she plied her art, You'd swear her mother-earth and she Had made a compact ne'er to part.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
