The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lingeringly \Lin"ger*ing*ly\, adv. With delay; slowly; tediously.
Wiktionary
adv. In a lingering manner, persistently, tending to remain.
WordNet
adv. in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way; "her voice was swift, yet ever the last words fell lingeringly" -Rossetti [syn: protractedly]
Usage examples of "lingeringly".
No longer passive, the naked brownette clenched her arms and thighs round her virile mature lover-master, and held to him for dear life as he foraged lingeringly in her love-citadel till once more her amorous tides were shatteringly swept up on the beach of bliss.
The cat backed to a safe distance when Burman opened the door, but looked lingeringly toward the laboratory.
He lay on the grass reeds, shivering, and thought briefly of Eleuth and what she had done, then more lingeringly of Helena.
When he had kissed Evelyn lingeringly, his hands under her robe, he led Pim to the closet door, urged her into it and passed just behind her.
When George had surrendered his boxes, she leapt upon his hips and kissed him lingeringly, tongue to his stomach.
She looked at Bares, and then she knelt before me, and pressed the half-gourd into her naked belly, head down, then lifted it to her lips, and lingeringly kissed it, then proffered it to me, kneeling, arms extended, trembling, head down between her arms.
He kissed her slowly and lingeringly, bemusing her so thoroughly that she wasn't even aware of him gradually lowering her so that her feet could once more touch the floor, thus freeing his hands to cup her face and her arms to instinctively and betrayingly creep round his neck, her heart pounding suffocatingly, as his tongue tip stroked her trembling lips.
Occasionally, one would cling for a moment, an electric charge meeting an opposite charge on his suit, so that they clutched at him and released their hold only lingeringly.