Meanings
adverblopingly (comparative more lopingly, superlative most lopingly)
comparative more lopingly · superlative most lopingly
- With a loping motion; with long, easy strides.
From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 332
Origin
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lopingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lopingly
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“lopingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lopingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lopingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lopingly.
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