ˈsoddenly, adv.
[f. sodden ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a sodden manner; heavily and dully; damply.
| 1901 Kipling Kim xv. 390 Kim had reeled to a room with a cot in it, and was dozing soddenly. 1920 Blackw. Mag. Apr. 501/2, I slept, fitfully at first, soddenly later. 1939 Joyce Finnegans Wake 514 Or (soddenly) Schott, furtivfired by the riots. 1976 Church Times 26 Nov. 5/1, I trudged soddenly along unfamiliar terrain. |