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glancingly
" The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side."
Emma Donoghue

Meaning of "glancingly" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF GLANCINGLY

ˈɡlɑːnsɪŋlɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GLANCINGLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Glancingly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES GLANCINGLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of glancingly in the English dictionary

The definition of glancingly in the dictionary is at an angle. Other definition of glancingly is briefly, without giving any details; in passing.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GLANCINGLY

advancingly · bouncingly · convincingly · decreasingly · depressingly · distressingly · embarrassingly · enticingly · entrancingly · increasingly · menacingly · mincingly · piercingly · prancingly · promisingly · rejoicingly · surpassingly · unceasingly · unconvincingly · vexingly

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GLANCINGLY

glance · glancer · glancing · gland · glandered · glanderous · glanders · glandes · glandiferous · glandiform · glandless · glandlike · glandular · glandular fever · glandularly · glandule · glanduliferous · glandulous · glandulously · glans

WORDS THAT END LIKE GLANCINGLY

accordingly · amazingly · astonishingly · correspondingly · exceedingly · interestingly · irritatingly · knowingly · livingly · lovingly · overwhelmingly · seemingly · shockingly · sickeningly · singly · sparingly · strikingly · strongly · stunningly · surprisingly · willingly

Synonyms and antonyms of glancingly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «glancingly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GLANCINGLY

Find out the translation of glancingly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of glancingly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «glancingly» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

glancingly
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

refilón
570 millions of speakers
en

English

glancingly
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

glancingly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عابر
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

вскользь
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

soslaio
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

glancingly
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

glancingly
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Glancingly
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

glancingly
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

glancingly
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

glancingly
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Glancingly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

glancingly
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மேலோட்டமாக
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Glancingly
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yalayarak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

striscio
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

glancingly
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

побіжно
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

glancingly
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

glancingly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

glancingly
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

glancingly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

glancingly
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about glancingly

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QUOTES WITH «GLANCINGLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word glancingly.
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Emma Donoghue
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLANCINGLY»

Discover the use of glancingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to glancingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Contemporary Russian Poetry: An Anthology
An Anthology Evgeniĭ Bunimovich, J. Kates. [civilization grazed glancingly] Civilization grazed glancingly against the forest brooding in its frosty pall, and glancingly against the darling pup wagging expectantly just off the trail. She scented wolf ...
Evgeniĭ Bunimovich, J. Kates, 2008
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A Critical Exposition of the third chapter of Paul's Epistle ...
It seems to be more natural, however, to suppose, that the Ap0stle,—though not improbably alluding glancingly to that peculiarity of our complex nature which renders us specially liable to fall before temptations,—had, on the whole, no very  ...
‎1866
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The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and ...
Swijl. * GLANCINGLY. adv. [from glace.} Is oblique broken manner ; transiently.— Sir Rids Hawkins hath done something in this kind, I brokenly and glancingly, intending chkfljn course of his own voyage. HaiewiJl m Prn. (1,) * GLAND, n. /.
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1807
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Shakespeare's Poems
Shakespeare's way of describing his ambition has a hint of anxiety to it, as it just glancingly suggests that hours might still be 'idle' even when they are filled with the scribbling work of writing poetry.41 The senses of 'idle' in this period extend ...
Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen, 1999
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Should You Leave?
As it happens, I know Jonnie glancingly, because of Lou. Back when she was working on Lou's book, Jonnie's marriage began to fray, and she asked Lou who there was to speak with in town. Lou knew only me. My practice was full, but I ...
Peter D. Kramer, 2013
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CLIFFORD GEERTZ IN MOROCCO
Of the many aspects of Clifford Geertz's work that have intrigued me over the years one, at this time, stands out: as far as I can tell, he never directly addressed questions related to humour in society and only glancingly referred to humour in  ...
Susan Slyomovics, 2013
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Emerson's Transcendental Etudes
The idea of indirection is not to invite us to strike glancingly, as if to take a sideswipe; it is instead to invite us, where called for, to be struck, impressed. (The Greek word naming the river of forgetfulness, which may be translated to mean hidden, ...
Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge, 2003
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The Rise of Encyclopedicity in Monolingual English ...
The greatest change Webster made in the quotations was his practice of giving a citation by author only, often without even a phrase to back it up, as in the entry for glancingly, given here for purposes of demonstration: GLANCINGLY, adv.
M. Carlan Wolf, 1994
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Astray
The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new.
Emma Donoghue, 2012
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Health/Policy Advisory Center Bulletin
Problems of the medical profession and the health-care system themselves have been acknowledged only glancingly, if at all. What follows will consider the profession's and the system's reactions to the crisis, surface and subterranean, and ...
Health/PAC., 1976

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLANCINGLY»

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Postcard From The End Of America — Ashley , PA
... resort just to glancingly experience America , bible thumpers who are bracing for the Great Whore of Revelation… If the pay wasn't piss poor, ... «CounterCurrents.org, Jul 15»
2
Limited Legacy
... including for sports of which most Winnipeggers were only glancingly aware. (At the time, handball organizers told the Free Press while fans ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 15»
3
Object Lessons by George Loudon review – small but spectacular …
As to what exactly that charm consists of, he is pretty clear that for him it is only glancingly concerned with an object's backstory. In this his ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Nutty Nhleko and the Qunu firepool
... on Nkandla in the past five years, few have ventured to compare it with Mandela's retirement home in Qunu at all, and then only glancingly. «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
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Monsters, Inc. (2001) — PICK
Up touches glancingly on the heartbreak of miscarriage and the inability to have children, as well as the anxious stubbornness of the elderly to ... «National Catholic Register, Jun 15»
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Exhibit examines wartime's lethal homophobia
The exhibit touches only glancingly on the treatment of lesbians, but notes that women were prized as wives and mothers for a nation that faced ... «The Villager, Jun 15»
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Mistaking the Symptom for the Disease
Ben-Shahar and Schneider glancingly acknowledge that disclosure's failure has something to do with the choices Americans daily face. «RegBlog, Jun 15»
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Stephanie Grace: Candidates for Louisiana governor are courting …
Angelle glancingly mentioned just one substantive goal in his ad — one that rarely appears on GOP platforms — and afterward was vague ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jun 15»
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Pernicious (Movie Review)
All of these issues are touched upon to various degrees - some glancingly, some droningly - though never to satisfying ends. More often than not, when an ... «JoBlo.com, Jun 15»
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'Seven Good Years' Remembers Tiny Moments Writ Exquisitely Large
Particularly for Keret, who'll undoubtedly write his down (referring to me glancingly as "an odd American book critic I was meant to have a drink ... «WFAE, Jun 15»
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