limply

comparative more limply · superlative most limply

1. In a limp manner, without support or resistance.

   The flag hung limply in the still air.

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   Ah, but someone was raising her, so they were going to lay her on the trestles, and she not dead. She opened her eyes, took a deep breath, then limply and contritely placed both arms round Andrew's neck.

   1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 181

   He went on kissing her with unflagging industry, while she remained limply in his arms, in a species of satisfied trance.

   1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 122