Lingeringly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LINGERINGLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• spend a long time over (something)
• be slow to disappear or die
• stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave
• With delay; slowly; tediously.
ADVERB:
• LINGERING, remaining
• in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to be slow in parting or in quitting something; tarry

Words related to LINGERINGLY

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How to use LINGERINGLY in a sentence

• Lingeringly, almost reluctantly, Landor got into his saddle.
• At the door of the studio, she turned again, to look long and lingeringly about the room.
• Going slowly, lingeringly, through the rose garden to the little gate in the hedge, she disappeared in the orange grove.
• Pausing before Eve, he gazed at her lingeringly, then sprang half-way up the adjacent door-steps, and proffered her his fragrant freight.
• He too hesitates, then, stooping, presses his lips warmly, lingeringly to it.
• The words seemed to leave her lips slowly, almost lingeringly, and she spoke with the precision and slight accent of a well-educated foreigner.
• He looked lingeringly over her, coming back now and again to the eyes, behind the deep earnestness of which he could not guess lay concealed a deeper sneer.
• Curtis found it impossible to tear herself away until certain utterly irrelevant matters had been lightly touched upon and lingeringly abandoned.
• We hear the whisperings and the sweet vows of eternal love as they lingeringly part forever.
• He retreated, then, lingeringly, across the threshold, his eyes upon her still.
• The rain stopped, not lingeringly, but as if a key had been turned, and cracks came in the clouds like clefts in black ice and showed the blue beyond.
• Lighting it he puffed slowly and deeply at it, exhaling the smoke lingeringly through his nostrils.
• These slowly unveiled themselves, showing in patches of brilliant color through rents in the mist which drew off lingeringly, leaving filaments caught delicately in the heights.
• As he went lingeringly down the staircase, which would henceforth be trodden seldom if ever by him, he heard the ringing of the house-bell, which announced the return of Mr.
• CHAPTER XXXI NIGHT Evening, placidly content with the warm silence, departed lingeringly.
• She loosened her convulsive clasp upon his hand, turned it upwards, and stooping low, she pressed her lips closely, passionately, lingeringly, upon his open palm.
• He dusted it tenderly with his handkerchief, changed the tension of the strings, and held it up to his ear lingeringly as though hearing something.
• Helen May felt as though he had taken her in his arms and kissed her lingeringly.
• Colonel Anderson gazed lingeringly toward the spot where lay the body of Colonel Edwards, and there were tears in his eyes as he did so.
• Or it was given in the slower, more painful, more taxing way of being lingeringly given out through years of steadfast doing or enduring.
• One Sunday morning, long ago, a girl stood in her bed-room, lingeringly occupied with the last touches of her toilet.
• Again he saw, shadowed by the chin, that part of her neck where he loved to bury his brow and to rest his lips, greedily, lingeringly, as when one sips a liqueur.
• His eyes left the uplands lingeringly and wandered across the sweeping fields of Desert Valley.
• Then, lingeringly and with many a backward look, Alan Howard went on his way.

Similar words containing LINGERING without suffix ly

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