English

Adverb

grumblingly ‎(comparative more grumblingly, superlative most grumblingly)

1. While or as if grumbling
   • 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:

     But they went off disappointed, and grumblingly.

   • 1902, Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler:

     This threat being dramatically capped by the click of a cocking pistol, 'Frisco Kid obeyed and went grumblingly back to the cockpit. "

   • 1915, Ralph Henry Barbour, Left Tackle Thayer:

     Amy grumblingly agreed to give the stream another chance to behave itself.