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How lousy actors deliver their lines
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woodenly
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Word definitions for woodenly in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. without grace; rigidly; "they moved woodenly" [syn: ungraciously , ungracefully , gracelessly , without graciousness ] [ant: graciously , graciously ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context of speech English) Without emotion. 2 (context of movement English) clumsily or without animation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodenly \Wood"en*ly\, adv. Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. --R. North.
Usage examples of woodenly.
The errant Cabalists stepped woodenly forward, shuffling like sleepwalkers.
In the bendy mirror behind the bar I saw him leave, woodenly, stung, scared.
Diana refused Wallis's offer of a bosun's chair and ran down after Stephen as lithe and nimble as a boy, while the boat's crew stared woodenly out into the offing, lest they should see her legs.
Instead she sat quietly beside me on the step and looked woodenly at the rabbit hutches and Tripod eating out of his bowl under the pecan tree.