Word Meanings - LAGGINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a lagging manner; loiteringly.

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• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• LOITERINGLY
  In a loitering manner.
• LAGGARD
  Slow; sluggish; backward.
• LAGGINGLY
  In a lagging manner; loiteringly.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• LAGGING
  The clothing , as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading. 2. Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.
• LAGGER
  A laggard.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• SLAGGY
  Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• FLAGGY
  1. Weak; flexible; limber. "Flaggy wings." Spenser. 2. Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. Bacon.
• FLAGGING
  A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
• FLAGGINESS
  The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness. Johnson.