lumpily
/ˈlʌmpɪli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Like a lump; awkwardly, heavily, ponderously.
Example Sentences
- "I had no idea that anything in the shape of a horse could be so limp as that, either living or dead. His wild mane hung down lumpily, a mere mass of inanimate horsehair; his aggressive ears had collapsed, but as he went swaying slowly across the front of the bridge I noticed an astute gleam in his dreamy, half-closed eye."
- "An hour later, he had paid about $3.25, been talked through the workings of a small bank of stainless-steel machines, and was leaving with a bag of fluffy if lumpily folded clothes."
- "He'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair."
- "“You’ll feel better when you’ve drunk this’m,” said the parlourmaid lumpily, pouring out some tea."
- "What ever became of the chaos in Laos? Last year at this time the pro-Communist Pathet Lao were strutting lumpily across the Plain of Jars in their dun-colored uniforms, proudly triumphant over the “neutralist” forces of General Kong Le and threatening to overrun the entire country."
- "This extraordinary life probably needed a solidly presented non-fiction film; what we have here is an odd and lumpily constructed drama-doc with daytime-telly production values, featuring some very hammy acting and direction."
Etymology
From lumpy + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more lumpily (comparative)
most lumpily (superlative)