strangledly

English

Etymology

From strangled +‎ -ly.

Adverb

strangledly (comparative more strangledly, superlative most strangledly)

1. While or as if being strangled.
   • 1945, Cornell Woolrich, “The Fountain Pen”, in Frank Owen, editor, Fireside Mystery Book, New York, N.Y.: Lantern Press, Inc., published 1947, page 294:

     Hammond was coughing strangledly, and wiping a bloody fleck from his cheek, where one of the fragments of the pen barrel had nicked him.

   • 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 608:

     He broke off strangledly and got down on his knees, holding his left arm gingerly with his right, and vomited.

   • 1959, Alan Hunter, Gently in the Sun (the Inspector George Gently series), London: Robinson, published 2011, →ISBN, page 103:

     His words came strangledly, incoherent with violent passion.