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writhingly

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

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adv

Meaning 1

With a writhing motion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1822, uncredited author, “The Nightmare” (Review of Smarra, ou les Démons de la Nuit by Charles Nodier (1821), including free translations of passages from the novella), The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 4, p. 524, [...] the monster sprang from her burning hand, turned writhingly and rapidly in the air, outspread his wildly-fashioned wings, uprose, sank down, expanded, shrunk [...]

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History

Etymology

From writhing + -ly.