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Meaning of wallowingly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

So as to wallow.

not-comparable

Examples

“It was nothing less than Leoville de Vinchelez's strange catapult-carrying catamaran, barely under control and listing to port as it sailed wallowingly towards the headland […]”
“She had stormed dramatically off and got on the first train she saw at Waterloo station and rode it the whole way down to Brighton, taking a room in a seedy B and B. But then, after a nap, still feeling wobbly and also wallowingly sorry for herself, Diantha climbed off the bed and sat down at the desk to write Charles some operatic note of farewell.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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