Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a stagnant or still, motionless, inactive manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a stagnant manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
stagnant manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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My hopes were quickly dashed, though, as the play's first act played out stagnantly.
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My hopes were quickly dashed, though, as the play's first act played out stagnantly.
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I've reconnected with people from the past, spent "bonus" time with family, and established myself in an environment that has, personally, been stagnantly unprogressive since my arrival in my "adult" years.
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I've reconnected with people from the past, spent "bonus" time with family, and established myself in an environment that has, personally, been stagnantly unprogressive since my arrival in my "adult" years.
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If the second book took place in the same world but dealt with a different hero/heroine, with March and Jax hanging around in the background being stagnantly blissful, it would be an SFR.
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Through the breathless noon in the valleys of Kerak the prisoned air had brooded stagnantly without relief, while the heat sucked the perfume from the flowers.
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Garbage confettied the ground, and potholes full of waste water glistened stagnantly.
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Garbage confettied the ground, and potholes full of waste water glistened stagnantly.
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Garbage confettied the ground, and potholes full of waste water glistened stagnantly.
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A heavy weight of dusty grey cloud lay oppressively inert, vaguely resting on the house and tree tops, and underneath the cloud the air seemed stagnantly confined; in its lowest strata people had been breathing it all day -- all the week, in fact -- in and out of their lungs, so that it was no wonder it felt tired and second-hand and used up.
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