waddlesome

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adjective

Characterised by a waddling gait.

Scrabble 17

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adjectivewaddlesome (comparative more waddlesome, superlative most waddlesome)

comparative more waddlesome · superlative most waddlesome

  1. Characterised by a waddling gait.

    Thru-hiking the AT, he wrote in the opening pages of the ensuing book, would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth.

    2021, Philip D'Anieri, The Appalachian Trail: A Biography, page 199
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    I was angry with my bubble-brained antics and my waddlesome sloth, with my guides, with the thunder, with this stupid maze of rocks.

    2001, The Way of the Wanderer: Discover Your True Self Through Travel

    Beholding his waddlesome approach out of the tail of her eye, the white animal would whinny a dignified and conservative welcome.

    2021, Irvin S. Cobb, Old Judge Priest

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