inchingly

English

Etymology

inching +‎ -ly

Adverb

inchingly (comparative more inchingly, superlative most inchingly)

1. An inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.
   • 1995, Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, A little better than plumb: the biography of a house, page 141:

     When the new driveway was completed and cars and trucks could crawl inchingly over it, I lost my patience with moon-science.

   • 2010, Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, page 146:

     […] a new, more active world, dominated by animals that move around, even if as inchingly as snails, urchins and crabs.