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Angularly

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an·gu·lar  (nggy-lr)
adj.
1. Having, forming, or consisting of an angle or angles.
2. Measured by an angle or by degrees of an arc.
3. Bony and lean; gaunt: an angular face.
4. Lacking grace or smoothness; awkward: an angular gait.
5. Rigid, stiff, and unyielding in character or disposition: "the cold, angular brand of materialism" (David K. Willis).

[Latin angulris, from angulus, angle.]

angu·lar·ly adv.
angu·lar·ness n.


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But in life --as we have elsewhere seen --this inclined plane is angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent mass of the junk and sperm.
Gashford, the secretary, was taller, angularly made, high- shouldered, bony, and ungraceful.
Madame de S--- agitated herself angularly on the sofa.
 
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