Meaning of hackingly | Babel Free

Definitions

In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.

Examples

“The furnace protested long and hackingly like⟳ the lungs of an old smoker at an early morning cigarette.”

“Magazine illustrations cut⟳ hackingly by her tiny, amateur fingers.”

“He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.”

““So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh⟳. “No,” I said, in answer⟳ to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have⟳ not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say⟳ that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.””

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