droopingly

adv

droopingly

adv

Etymology From drooping + -ly.

1

In a drooping manner.

The wilted flowers emerged droopingly from their vase.
When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

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