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1.
with great care or caution; warily.
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cautious, careful, or wary.
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Gingerly
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example Sentences
- So I gingerly reached in and pulled it out.
- Footsteps crunch frozen tundra, and dancing shoes step gingerly over ice-covered rivulets.
- He then walked gingerly off the field.
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gingerly
1519, "elegantly, daintily," perhaps from O.Fr. gensor, comp. of gent "dainty, delicate," from L. gentius "(well)-born." Meaning "extremely cautiously" is from 1607.
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