wrigglingly

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English

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Etymology

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From wriggling +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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wrigglingly (comparative more wrigglingly, superlative most wrigglingly)

  1. With a motion that wriggles.
    • 2009 June 7, Dwight Garner, “Submitting to a Play’s Spell, Without the Stage”, in New York Times[1]:
      But Ms. Reza’s and Mr. LaBute’s plays strike me as the hairy beasts in this foursome; they’re alert, pushy works in which words are hurled like poison darts. Mr. Foote’s and Mr. Kaufman’s are calmer, more self-conscious and a bit less wrigglingly alive, at least on the page.