sleepinglyadv.
Sleepily.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adverb]
drowsily1581
sleepily1607
somnolently1615
sleepingly1638
oscitantly1645
slumberously1816
dozingly1831
comatosely1859
dozily1861
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 237 I doe not use to view the statues and images made by Art sleepingly and slenderly.
1683 Bp. W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Encomium Moriæ (1722) 25 To jog sleepingly through the World in a dumpish, Melancholly Posture cannot properly be said to Live.
1862 S. Wilberforce Speeches on Missions (1874) 282 Allowing them to go on sleepingly, and comfortably.
1891 Temple Bar May 122 The facchini..struggled sleepingly upstairs for my luggage.
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