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crawlingly

adv. 1 With a crawling motion. 2 (context figurative English) In a humble or sycophantic manner.

Usage examples of "crawlingly".

Then the micrometers began again crawlingly to move, as though he were tracing a beam.

No doubt every opponent of Peter's would resurrect Achilles as a martyr, a much-slandered boy who offered the brightest hope to mankind, slain in his youth by the crawlingly vile Peter Wiggin, or his mother the witch or his father the snake.

The wood was crawlingly unpleasant to the touch, smooth and stone-like with years.