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词汇 limply
释义 limply
adverb
uk /ˈlɪmp.li/ us /ˈlɪmp.li/
in a way that is soft and neither firm nor stiff: 柔软地;四肢无力地,软绵绵地
She lay limply in his arms.她软绵绵地躺在他的怀里。
The cigarette hung limply from his mouth.香烟软软地挂在他嘴边。
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limp
Her hands rested limply in her lap.
Colourless curtains hung limply at the window.
Her wet hair straggles limply on her shoulders.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Flexible, loose and yielding
adrift
bendable
bendy
ductile
ductility
flowing
jointed
lax
limpness
loose-fitting
ragdoll
relax
rubbery
semi-flexible
slacken
uncompressed
unconstricted
unstayed
unstuck
yielding

Examples of limply


limply
Throughout she held the doll limply in her lap, without attention, concentrating totally on the rhyme.
Even now, her condemnation is limply to say that nobody wants this strike; she will not condemn it.
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We cower behind the fact that we have no language to describe it and, finding no language to describe it, limply assume it won't happen.
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She is portrayed walking limply with her hands dangling.
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Skeletal hands with fingers like talons dangle limply at the end of their arms.
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The panicles often hang limply, which is how the plant got its common name; the clusters look as though they are nodding.
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Then they are bent downwards and allowed to hang limply.
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The bird sometimes feigns death and hangs limply with eyes closed.
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It shows an unusual behaviour when occasionally it loses muscle tone and hangs limply from its pedal disc attachment.
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Sometimes the head is allowed to slump sideways and hang limply.
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His wrist limply rests over the back of a child-size chair in which lies an equally limp, contented spaniel.
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When the drill's axis is vertical the bit begins to rotate again, spinning the performer's limply spreadeagled body around.
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