stumblingly, adv.
(ˈstʌmblɪŋlɪ)
[f. stumbling ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a stumbling manner.
| a 1586 Sidney Apol. Poet. (Arb.) 62, I know not, whether to meruaile more, either that he [Chaucer] in that mistie time, could see so clearely, or that wee in this cleare age, walke so stumblingly after him. 1879 Browning Martin Relph 95 A Man,..Who staggeringly, stumblingly, rises, falls, rises. 1915 Chamb. Jrnl. Aug. 491/2, I stumblingly descended the rugged bank. |