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adv. - With a stutter.

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Usage examples (38)
  • 'I-er-I heard a noise,' said Alma, stammeringly for she was afraid of the Head.
  • "You -- you are very good to your countrywomen in distress," she got out stammeringly.
  • Now she spoke hastily, stammeringly, in the tongue of the Norse, as if she had not so spoken in years.
  • I suggested (stammeringly) that he and the elders might like to come round and pray like it describes in James.
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