swinging
adjective
characterized by or capable of swinging, being swung, or causing to swing.
swingingly
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a word derived from
swinging.
Example Sentences
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Midnight Cowboy “has all the trappings of a film made for its time, swingingly right for the second half of 1969,” wrote then Guardian critic Derek Malcolm in a 1969 review of the film.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2017
From the very start, Linklater’s astonishingly well-cast and well-meshed ensemble of actors appears both swingingly choreographed in daily motion and exhilaratingly, swaggeringly free.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2016
The poet gloats over his sins—is musically remorseful or swingingly defiant; he hints or exaggerates or invents.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
O we shall carry it most certainly: You have Money to go through with the Business; and ne’re fear but we’ll trounce them swingingly.
From The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold by Vinton A. Dearing
He bears his bulk proudly, and would sit well any charger that were strong enough to bear him, and, if such a steed were not in stables, would walk the distance swingingly.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
