Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pliantly; with suppleness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb in a supple manner
  • adverb flexibly

Etymologies

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supple +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • He wrapped her in dreams of hot skin slickly sliding, tongues sensuously tangling, muscled hardness and flushed softness supplely and intimately twining.

    The Ideal Bride Laurens, Stephanie 2004

  • The brown women joined hands in a ring and moved supplely about the altar, dancing a strange dark measure.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The brown women joined hands in a ring and moved supplely about the altar, dancing a strange dark measure.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Conan flipped the coin to her, she caught it, bit, then thrust it into her hair, bent supplely and caught up the gourd and went on down the path, as devoid of self-consciousness as of garments.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Conan flipped the coin to her, she caught it, bit, then thrust it into her hair, bent supplely and caught up the gourd and went on down the path, as devoid of self-consciousness as of garments.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Beneath a gown of crimson lace she was naked, and her body was as supplely inviting as a down-filled bed on a cold winter's night.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • Beneath a gown of crimson lace she was naked, and her body was as supplely inviting as a down-filled bed on a cold winter's night.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • It slid supplely around her ankles, meowing affectionately.

    The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • It slid supplely around her ankles, meowing affection-ately.

    The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • The barbarian was thinking only of the woman moving so supplely beside him.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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