Definitions
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- adverb In a
hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.
Etymologies
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hacking + -ly
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Examples
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Levitt starts each chapter with one of these bizarre questions that he has hackingly coughed out of his mystical lungs.
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Levitt starts each chapter with one of these bizarre questions that he has hackingly coughed out of his mystical lungs.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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"No rumor!" shouted the glowing, golden man, and he paused to cough hackingly.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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