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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And what a slidingly musical use he makes of the sibilants with which our language is unjustly taxed by those who can only make them hiss, not sing!
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
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
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
Though his life pass somewhat slidingly, yet he seems very carefull of the tyme, for he is always drawing his watch out of his pocket, and spends part of his hours in numbering them.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
