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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

"Well, then, Page—it certainly does come more trippingly on my tongue—Page is meaning to write, and she, too, is putting things down in a notebook."

From Tripping with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed