baulkingly

comparative more baulkingly · superlative most baulkingly

1. alternativeAlternative form of balkingly.

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

   1934, Susan Miles [pen name; Ursula Wyllie Roberts], Blind Men Crossing a Bridge, Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 585

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

   1885 March 26, Herbert Capper, “Southern Correspondence”, in Garnett Weekly Journal, volume 13, number 19 (whole 643), Garnett, Kan., published 25 April 1885

   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.

   1929, Oliver Elton, “Press Censorship”, in C. E. Montague: A Memoir, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 220–221

   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.

   1958, Books of the Month, page 16

   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.

   2014, Sandeep Dahiya, “Just Another Day”, in Faceless Gods, Lulu, →ISBN, page 447

   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.

   2020 September 20, Sipho Mabaso, “ANC’s handling of Masuku-Diko PPE saga shows how corruption blurs state and party lines”, in Independent Online