sleepily

English

Etymology

sleepy +‎ -ly

Adverb

sleepily (comparative more sleepily, superlative most sleepily)

  1. In a sleepy manner.
    • 1839, Launcelot Lamprey, “Mems in the Mediterranean”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 24:
      Igins was studying the habits of a capuchin caterpillar, that, like his betters, was sleepily eating his way through existence on the leaf of a cabbage in the garden […]
    • 1857 January, “To-morrow”, in The Mother's Magazine:
      Lettie's eyes were scarcely open, but she answered sleepily, "Well, papa."
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