Definition of "torpidly" []

• In a torpid way or manner. (adverb)

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• "A number of fierce-looking and ill-clad Albanian soldiers were hanging about the place, and striving to bear the curse of tranquillity as well as they could: two or three of them, I think, were smoking their tchibouques, but the rest of them were lying torpidly upon the flat stones, like the bodies of departed brigands."
• "Disappointment washed through its mind as the man turned at the call of another of its kind and ran torpidly back toward the lights."
• "He agrees the government has responded "torpidly.""