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What does lingeringly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a lingering manner, persistently, tending to remain.
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Towsley eyed it lingeringly, even lovingly, yet the passes toward his crumby lips were few and far between.
They are accepted, lingeringly, daintily, but are not eaten.
Eric looked lingeringly at her as they danced, without saying a single embarrassing word about her appearance.
I was never expected to marry her, nor was I encouraged to kiss her lingeringly for the cameras either.
Some conservative commentators, who didn't have much else to gloat about, dwelt lingeringly on what they evidently regarded as the upside of the huge, Obama-sparked African-American turnout.
Pell liked vodka, liked to lingeringly nurse thimblefuls of the stuff in the evening.

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