slow-like

adverb

Slowly.

Meanings

adverbslow-like (comparative more slow-like, superlative most slow-like)

comparative more slow-like · superlative most slow-like

  1. colloquialdialectalSlowly.
    1 more example

    "I Gor to thinkin' 'bout it, days when I was sailin', and wondering if mebbe the Lord wa'n't gettin' folks ready jest the way he did the rocks-rolling 'em over and having 'em pound each other and claw and fight and cool off, slow-like, till bymeby they 'd be good sweet earth and grass and little flowers-comftabul to live with"

    1906 May 26, The Publisher's Weekly, number 1791, F. Leypoldt, page 1473
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APA

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Chicago

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