Meaning of lumpily | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In a lumpy manner, with lumps.
2. Like a lump; awkwardly, heavily, ponderously.

Examples

“I had no idea that anything in the shape⟳ of a horse could be so limp as that, either living or dead. His wild mane hung down lumpily, a mere mass of inanimate horsehair; his aggressive ears had collapsed, but as he went swaying slowly across the front of the bridge I noticed an astute gleam in his dreamy, half-closed eye.”

“An hour later, he had paid about $3.25, been talked through the workings of a small bank of stainless-steel machines, and was leaving with a bag of fluffy if lumpily folded clothes.”

“He'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair.”

““You’ll feel⟳ better when you’ve drunk this’m,” said the parlourmaid lumpily, pouring out some tea.”

“What ever became of the chaos in Laos? Last⟳ year at this time the pro-Communist Pathet Lao were strutting lumpily across the Plain of Jars in their dun-colored uniforms, proudly triumphant over the “neutralist” forces of General Kong Le and threatening to overrun the entire country.”

“This extraordinary life probably needed a solidly presented non-fiction film; what we have⟳ here is an odd and lumpily constructed drama-doc with daytime-telly production values, featuring some very hammy acting and direction.”

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