lubberly
Example Sentences
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That fo’c’s’le is great As the place to relate How your lubberly cap’n’s an as’le.
From Washington Post
As the islands slide by, embedded in their wrinkled sheet of sapphire, you run over your limited skills and lubberly sailing experience and watch your confidence begin to ebb.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Big Lub" to other ball players and rock fighters in Cincinnati when he was a boy, William Howard Taft was large but not lubberly.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Plenty men think what I think. Sailing by book is a mighty lubberly business.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
