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Meaning of sippingly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

With sips.

Examples

“Because there is nothing sottish about you; and you throw down your wine like a man that wants to get a certain quantity down in order to drown care, and not like one who drinks it because he likes the taste of it,—that is, slowly and sippingly.”
“I have long observed, as I doubt not have many of you, that the condition here described is often alleviated in the most striking manner by the use of exclusively liquid nourishment—such as milk or milk-gruel, given in small portions sub-continuously, or sippingly, as it were, throughout the waking hours—the patient being never permitted to take a distinct meal, nor a particle of solid food.”
“He might ignore it for three months and then, one midnight, drink sippingly and methodically from a water glass, lying back on the cot an hour later with the world all closed down, nothing left of it but a terminal throbbing ache in his forebrain.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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