lumpishly

Adverb

 * 1) In a lumpish manner.
 * 2) * 1640,, , in Five New Playes, London: A. Crook, 1659, Act I, Scene 3, p. 12,
 * Millicent. Construe more charitably, I beseech you,
 * My Virgin blushes.
 * Testy. ’Tis your sullenness;
 * Would you have brided it so lumpishly
 * With your spruce younker, that fine silken beggar,
 * Whose Land lies in your Husbands counting house,
 * Or the most part.
 * 1) * 1797, Robert Heron, A New General History of Scotland, Edinburgh: R. Morison & Son et al., Volume III, Book IV, Section II, p. 246,
 * The men at arms or heavy-armed soldiery of the modern European armies, were so completely clad in massy steel; that it seemed as if the warriour thus armed, and then mounted on horseback, or placed in the field of fight, would scarcely be able either to advance or retire, or to do any thing else but bear the brunt of his adversary’s blow, to wield, himself, some awkward strokes, and to stand or fall lumpishly on the spot on which he was fixed.