Skimmingly

Quick meaning: Skimmingly is an adverb meaning in a skimming manner.

Meaning

in a skimming manner.

Example Sentences

Yesterday, beside preaching a sermon more than half new, and attending a funeral (out of the society), I read skimmingly more than half Nichol's "Architecture of the Heavens."

Whether sleeping, quarrelling, or playing, whether curious, frightened, or angry, its interest is continuously humorous, but the Adelie penguin in the water is another thing; as it darts to and fro a fathom or two below the surface, as it leaps porpoise-like into the air or swims skimmingly over the rippling surface of a pool, it excites nothing but admiration.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glancingly, skimpily, cursorily, skiddily, scrimpily, skirmishingly.

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