widdershins
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Sandy Dennis, with her wiggly mouth and widdershins acting style, might as well have a curl in the middle of her forehead.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the waves beat upon the one hand, and upon the other the dead leaves ran; and the clouds raced in the sky, and the gulls flew widdershins.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis
That was the wrong way round—the unlucky, uncanonical direction; the evil way, widdershins, the opposite of sunwise.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant
When it began, their reporters would take down everything that was said, writing widdershins, very diligently, very slowly, in their solemn picture language.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
There's a hubble of the mothaship, whirlagig and widdershins around our rock.
From Shadow of the Mothaship by Doctorow, Cory
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