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somnambulistically en · ADV

Etymology

From somnambulistic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In somnambulistic fashion; as if sleepwalking.
   • Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 569:
   • When she isn’t tending to the corpselike patrons of the fashionable beauty parlor that employs her, she’s dodging the advances of a perfectly nice young man (John Fraser), arguing with her older sister and roommate, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), about the unwelcome overnight presence of Helen’s lover (Ian Hendry) or walking somnambulistically through the streets. 2009 July 26, Dave Kehr, “A Woman Repulsed, a Man Convulsed”, in New York Times:

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