top-heavy
adjective
having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
top-heavily
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a word derived from
top-heavy.
Example Sentences
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Corliss Lament's top-heavily titled National Council of American-Soviet Friendship unrolled a 20-page dossier, quoting in parallel columns White and those who apparently disagreed with him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mournfully the professor watched his dream of ten years, his $100,000 yacht on which he had no insurance, flop top-heavily on its side.
From Time Magazine Archive
He rested rather top-heavily against the bar and stretched out his hand.
From Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt
He seated himself top-heavily behind the diminutive gate-legged tea-table; the teapot and cups were like dolls' things in his great hands.
From Mr. Waddington of Wyck by May Sinclair
