slobberingly

comparative more slobberingly · superlative most slobberingly

1. In a slobbering manner.

   Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.

   1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XI, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, →OCLC

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   This portrait was as good and satisfactory a likeness as I generally succeeded in making; but it was painted in a rather loose manner, which I at that time affected in imitation of [Francis] Alexander’s bold touch,—a style which I materially modified, after a critic in speaking of my portrait of Sinclair called it a good likeness, but slobberingly painted. “Slobberingly” was a good word.

   1891, Thomas Ball, chapter XIII, in My Threescore Years and Ten. An Autobiography., Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 93

   Then the ambrosia was rolled in on a table, and Izzy poured coffee for both of us, and bowed and departed, and David Holly began to eat, slobberingly, and he got hot eating, and he took off his bathrobe, and he sat naked eating slobberingly, and I drank coffee.

   1964, Henry Kane, chapter 11, in Murder for the Millions: A New Case for Peter Chambers (American Bloodhound Mystery; 480), London: T. V. Boardman & Company, →OCLC, page 68