Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an angular manner; with angles or corners.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
angular manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Interrupted by an audible gasp of shock from a spinster-appearing female sunning herself hard by and angularly in the sand in a swimming suit monstrously unbeautiful, Lee Barton was aware of an involuntary and almost perceptible stiffening on the part of his wife.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Hiroshima -- As a mountain range rises angularly in the background, two Japanese misses, one in modern dress, the other clad in a traditional Japanese kimono, pose beside the Peace Bridge in Hiroshima during a day of remembrance, the ninth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima with atomic bombs.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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From an ash-grey sky finely-wrought snowflakes descended, fluttering angularly in the calm air like the scraps of paper that Americans pour over their heroes – God was blessing the Revolution – and fighter planes flew overhead in formation, while others flew low over the highest towers of Russian history.
Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009
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The sheer, angularly peaked mountain took several hours to climb.
Archive 2008-12-01 Michael Turton 2008
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The sheer, angularly peaked mountain took several hours to climb.
SERIAL 11: Kondo Katsusaburo among Taiwan's Atayal/Sedeq peoples, 1896 to 1930 Michael Turton 2008
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If someone temporarily forced him into a direct look by speaking to him, then this extremely unharmonious face, jagging angularly in all its features, would become somewhat reserved, wily, shifting, and downright hypocritical.
enowning enowning 2007
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If someone temporarily forced him into a direct look by speaking to him, then this extremely unharmonious face, jagging angularly in all its features, would become somewhat reserved, wily, shifting, and downright hypocritical.
Archive 2007-12-01 enowning 2007
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I was sitting behind Susanna; I could not see her face; I saw only from time to time her long dark hair tossed up and down on her shoulders, her figure swaying impulsively, and her delicate arms and bare elbows swiftly, and rather angularly, moving.
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It shone angularly on the ceiling like a letter L reversed.
Uncle Silas 2003
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But in life — as we have elsewhere seen — this inclined plane is angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent mass of the junk and sperm.
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