lumpishly, adv.
(ˈlʌmpɪʃlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a lumpish manner; heavily and clumsily; † dejectedly; stupidly; sluggishly (obs.).
| c 1430 Stans Puer ad Mensam 16 in Babees Bk., Lumpischli caste not þin heed a-doun. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. lxxxviii. 543 Let vs looke that wee knowe Gods trueth aforehand..for without that wee shall goe lumpishly to worke. a 1652 Brome Eng. Moor i. iii. Wks. 1873 II. 12 'Tis your sullenness; Would you have brided it so lumpishly With your spruce younker? 1860 Hawthorne Marb. Faun II. vi. 81 She sought..to relieve his heart of the burden that lay lumpishly upon it. 1862 Macm. Mag. Sept. 424 The dark outline of the summit peaked or lumpishly rounded. 1890 Clark Russell Ocean Trag. II. xxi. 180 Bodies of vapour coming together over our mastheads, and compacting there lumpishly amid the stagnant air. |