He sang drunkenly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a drunken quarrel. From Dictionary.com.
Drunks do it drunkenly, which is to say irrationally and against what would otherwise be their better judgment. From Wordnik.com. ["Gibson is a primitive all right, but so were Cecil B. DeMille and D. W. Griffith, and somehow we survived their idiocies."] Reference
The cat perched, grinning drunkenly, on the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Question of Comfort] Reference
Already it was swaying drunkenly from side to side. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
He staggered drunkenly to his rifle and picked it up. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy] Reference
"There are only a couple of us," Joe said, drunkenly. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
"I've got to get up to the hospital," he said drunkenly. From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
"Don't believe anything Ellie tells you," he said drunkenly. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
Don drunkenly left his Clio at the bar and Roger took it home. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Award Night] Reference
He tottered drunkenly toward a chair and sat down all of a heap. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Again it came up on its stilts, wavered drunkenly and collapsed. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
This speech was drunkenly approved, and the men pressed forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
'Did we just lose TO NORTHWESTERN?' they'll wail, usually drunkenly. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Matlack: James Franco, Others Discuss Favorite 'Guy Rituals'] Reference
She too leaped to her feet and stood there, swaying almost drunkenly. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
Another drunkenly attempted to dance and was restrained by the waiters. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
At one corner a group of men wrangled drunkenly outside a public-house. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
He slowly arose and shambled along half drunkenly to see what it all meant. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
He had come to the edge of the rock and stood leering drunkenly down on her. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
I drunkenly stumbled into my seat, giggling at the strange shift in gravity. From Wordnik.com. [Suicide Rough Drafts] Reference
He's finally appreciating sleep now that he's not drunkenly passing out into it. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Power of the Poontang] Reference
He only mildly embarrasses himself when he drunkenly asks Faye to go home with him. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Award Night] Reference
He stared drunkenly at a beautiful girl who could not have been more than seventeen. From Wordnik.com. [My Shipmate—Columbus] Reference
He served it with tallboys ofPBR, of course, and they ate it all up, smacking drunkenly. From Wordnik.com. [What have you been doing with your life?] Reference
The second eye was so infected that the boy was staggering drunkenly in an extreme delirium. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
The little nipa houses were flat on the ground or drunkenly sprawling at every slant and angle. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
The kids sprang in terror as he lurched in drunkenly, grabbing about in the dark for one of them. From Wordnik.com. [The White Feather Hex] Reference
He gets some perspective that he can't keep stumbling around drunkenly and doing what he's doing. From Wordnik.com. [90210's Ryan Eggold: Being a Dad-to-Be Gives Ryan Some Perspective] Reference
The sound of a voice trolling drunkenly made itself heard, came nearer, while the women stood terrified. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
One T 34 has driven into the flying control hut and stands there drunkenly, lopsidedly among the wreckage. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
But to Tom's surprise, there were no questions and a few of the men came over to pat him drunkenly on the back. From Wordnik.com. [On the Trail of the Space Pirates] Reference
Police say Lohan blew a .12 breathalyzer after drunkenly chasing another woman who then frantically called 911. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2007] Reference
The plane wabbled and swayed drunkenly out on to the field, then as the roar increased, it gathered speed and was off. From Wordnik.com. [32 Caliber] Reference
The door opened quietly, and the figure slipped out, leaving the horse in No. 7 leaning drunkenly against the side wall. From Wordnik.com. [The 1926 Tatler] Reference
He saw how sails grew tattered, yards sagged drunkenly, bodies heaped themselves on both vessels after each clumsy round. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Only the candle flames danced drunkenly in a puff of air, flaunting their secret knowledge of the tenant they had lighted. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
He drunkenly stumbles home and starts typing an apology letter that says, "Right now my life is very ..." before he stops. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: You Are Not a Good Person] Reference
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