sleepily

comparative more sleepily · superlative most sleepily

1. In a sleepy manner.

   Lettie's eyes were scarcely open, but she answered sleepily, "Well, papa."

   1857 January 28, “To-morrow”, in The Mother's Magazine

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   Igins was studying the habits of a capuchin caterpillar, that, like his betters, was sleepily eating his way through existence on the leaf of a cabbage in the garden […]

   1839, Launcelot Lamprey, “Mems in the Mediterranean”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 24