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trippingly

  • a word derived from trip.
    trip
    noun
    a journey or voyage.
  • a word derived from tripping.
    tripping
    adjective
    light and quick, as a step or pace.

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"Welsh Sparkling Wine doesn't exactly flow trippingly from the tongue, does it? It's not a brand identity", said Mr Mounsey.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022

Crisp, opaque rime — now doesn’t that roll trippingly off the tongue?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022

Even when “Weird City” runs over old sci-fi ground, which science fiction does all the time, it is does so trippingly, at a skip.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2019

For others, it was a fast-rising flood between houses, deceptively slight at first, tugging trippingly at the feet and ankles, but quickly sucking and battering at legs and chests and shoulders.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2017

Of all this Mona is unaware; though even were it otherwise I doubt if a lie could come trippingly to her lips, or a nice evasion be balanced there at a moment's notice.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess