lopingly

English

Etymology

From loping +‎ -ly.

Adverb

lopingly (comparative more lopingly, superlative most lopingly)

  1. With a loping motion; with long, easy strides.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 332:
      From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.
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