fallingly

comparative more fallingly · superlative most fallingly

1. While falling; with a falling motion.

   […] he lurched forward fallingly to receive him.

   1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional, page 111

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   Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.

   1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House