Meanings
adverbfailingly (comparative more failingly, superlative most failingly)
comparative more failingly · superlative most failingly
- In a failing manner.
I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]
2007, Edward F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard, page 195
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failingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/failingly
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“failingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/failingly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “failingly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/failingly.
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