inchmeal

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“While facts remain to be proved, lawsuits like this highlight young people’s despair with the drawn-out pace of the unhurried, inchmeal, bureaucratic response to our most dire emergency,” she wrote in her decision late last week.

From Seattle Times

We are making inchmeal progress across the gritty surface of the Red Planet heading toward a distant crater.

From Seattle Times

He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion.

From Project Gutenberg

LIMMEL—limb from limb; cf. "inchmeal"—bit by bit; Cymbeline, Act II.,

From Project Gutenberg

Those who are not thus slippery in the tail, are light of finger; and of these the most pernicious are those who beggar you inchmeal. 

From Project Gutenberg