Ripplingly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    With a rippling motion.

    "Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows[…]"

Example

More examples

"Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows[…]"

Etymology

From rippling + -ly.

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