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lopingly en · ADV

Etymology

From loping + -ly.

Meanings

  1. With a loping motion; with long, easy strides.
    • From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema. 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 332:

Forms

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more lopingly Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most lopingly Degree=Sup lexicographic