Failingly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a failing manner.
"I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]"
Example
More examples"I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]"
Etymology
From failing + -ly.
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