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somnambulistically

Definitions

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  • adverb In somnambulistic fashion; as if sleepwalking.

Etymologies

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somnambulistic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • Hillary was walking, somnambulistically in lockstep with other's in the Washington bubble.

    Hillary Hits Obama: We Need A "Hands On" President 2009

  • Hillary was walking, somnambulistically in lockstep with other's in the Washington bubble.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Hits Obama: We Need A "Hands On" President 2009

  • ``To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense and mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence with renewed doses, so as to paralyse his faculties for the rest of his life by the infallible law of fatigue; one must, besides, with good mesmeric fluid, make it somnambulistically impossible for him to move, against his nature forcing his eyes to cloud over at your own fixed stare.

    What the nonfiction writer promises the reader. Ann Althouse 2008

  • A card picked so forcefully yet so somnambulistically must have special significance, and you wonder which card it might be.

    Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

  • His gait was no longer stiff with reined-in anger; he moved almost somnambulistically, stopping at each stall and scrutinizing every face — both buyers and vendors — before going on.

    There's Something In A Sunday Muller, Marcia 1989

  • A great business is carried on there, but it seems to be done by people somnambulistically.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • It must be played, as Pachmann plays it, somnambulistically, with a tremulous delicacy of intensity, as if it were a living thing on whose nerves one were operating, and as if every touch might mean life or death.

    Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

  • They chanted, bowed, made intricate hand gestures, moved somnambulistically from the stage to the floor of the hall, lighting incense, unfurling cryptic banners, spewing liquids into the air, while a droning soundscape filled the hall and a blurry video of a Blair Witch Project-like woodlands jittered behind them.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Get your arse to mass and your brain will follow, just do it - somnambulistically, no pontificating.

    Telegraph Blogs 2008

  • Tony Ross, a six foot three protest against the cold and early hour, passed somnambulistically.

    The Sheila Variations 2008

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