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lurkingly

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

So as to lurk; in sinister concealment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1872, The Law Magazine and Review, New Series, Vol. I, London: Butterworths, p. 819, https://books.google.ca/books?id=KlhNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Either openly obscene, and barely, but at the same time ingeniously, escaping the clutches of the law; or lurkingly depraved, or ridiculously sentimental and unreal, there is often enough in any one of the papers we now refer to to corrupt the youth of a generation, and to sap all manly and womanly virtues.

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History

Etymology

From lurking + -ly.