slouchingly

1. 1.

   with a slouching gait or posture

   “he stood slouchingly at the garden gate”

Questions about slouchingly

What does slouchingly mean?

slouchingly means "with a slouching gait or posture".

How many syllables are in slouchingly?

slouchingly has 3 syllables and divides as slou-chin-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is slouchingly a common word?

slouchingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.