LIMPLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does limply mean? 

• LIMPLY (adverb)
  The adverb LIMPLY has 1 sense:

1. without rigidity

  Familiarity information: LIMPLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIMPLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without rigidity

Context example:

the body was hanging limply from the tree

 Context examples 

White Fang, hanging limply, continued to cry.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The pendent ears hang down limply beside the head.

(German Wirehaired Pointer, NCI Thesaurus)

"Either the man was drunk or criminally malicious," he said that afternoon, from his perch on the bed, when Brissenden had arrived and dropped limply into the one chair.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His body wrapped limply about the fist like a wet rag about a stick.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Charles was a middle-aged, lightish-colored man, with weak and watery eyes and a mustache that twisted fiercely and vigorously up, giving the lie to the limply drooping lip it concealed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The sharp ears were not pricked so sharply as he had seen them on other wolves; the eyes were bleared and bloodshot, the head seemed to droop limply and forlornly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Beauty Smith tightened the thong again, and White Fang crawled limply and dizzily to his feet.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He staggered limply about, the blood flowing from nose and mouth and ears, his beautiful coat sprayed and flecked with bloody slaver.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He took to standing for long periods, with nose to the ground and dejected ears dropped limply; and Buck found more time in which to get water for himself and in which to rest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)