escapingly

adv

escapingly

adv

Etymology From escaping + -ly.

1

By way of escape; so as to get away.

  • Then all present guzzled escapingly, putting behind them the relationship of their host and hostess.1978, Brian Victor Bell, Paper Tiger: Prose Fictions by Five Writers, page 117:

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