strangledly
advEtymology From strangled + -ly.
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While or as if being strangled.
- Hammond was coughing strangledly, and wiping a bloody fleck from his cheek, where one of the fragments of the pen barrel had nicked him.1945, Cornell Woolrich, “The Fountain Pen”, in Frank Owen, editor, Fireside Mystery Book, New York, N.Y.: Lantern Press, Inc., published 1947, page 294:
- He broke off strangledly and got down on his knees, holding his left arm gingerly with his right, and vomited.1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 608:
1 more example
- His words came strangledly, incoherent with violent passion.1959, Alan Hunter, Gently in the Sun (the Inspector George Gently series), London: Robinson, published 2011, →ISBN, page 103: