escapingly

English

Etymology

From escaping +‎ -ly.

Adverb

escapingly (not comparable)

  1. By way of escape; so as to get away.
    • 1978, Brian Victor Bell, Paper Tiger: Prose Fictions by Five Writers, page 117:
      Then all present guzzled escapingly, putting behind them the relationship of their host and hostess.
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