In a manner characterized by drawling; while speaking with prolonged vowel sounds.
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to drawling, converting the participle into an adverb that describes how an action is performed or a quality is expressed.
'He drawlingly replied' is a more sophisticated way of describing slow speech than just 'spoke slowly,' because it carries cultural and regional associations that simple slowness doesn't convey.
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