Meaning of baulkingly | Babel Free

Definitions

Adverb. [B2]

Examples

“When street cars and public parks are baulkingly branded, it is just possible that churches are in like fix.”

“I only just succeed in holding it out of the way, for parts of two trucks just touch it, and clang rather baulkingly, and the wheels are uncomfily close to my head.”

“The great script swooped and spated; then broke off, baulkingly, with a scatter of dashes and curves.”

“He writes well when he is describing moments of action—the miserable life of the peasants under the cruelty and oppression of the Karageorgević régime—but the book is discursive and baulkingly long, and the moments of drama are lost between pages of trivia and pretentious overwriting.”

“Some old mendicant’s mythically established blessing that the villagers’ crops won’t be destroyed by rains and hailstorms had been baulkingly breached at last.”

“The Masuku-Diko troika may likely recall, baulkingly, September 2020 as the spring of many winters, a time they would rather forget - or the ANC, an unsurprising own goal.”

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