0 present participle of limp
1 to walk slowly and with difficulty because of having an injured or painful leg or foot:
2 to move or develop slowly and with difficulty:
And as scientific advances rocket far ahead of both our bemused journalistic establishment and our limping regulatory apparatus, the reality becomes ever more pernicious.
Although we hear the song 'in four', it is a 'limping' four - definitely not a 'funky' four.
To take one final pain example - consider the phenomenon of limping.
When, in the second act of the play, she emerges into the public discourse surrounding the 1890s anti-nautch movement, it is as a limping grotesque.
The killdeer's mimicry has presumably evolved; but is it wise to conclude that the human limping response has, as well?
It felt post-coital in the way it evaded cultural work, limping pusillanimously from one note to the next.
All vertebrates, when they have an injured leg, exhibit a limping gait that presumably has little, if any, intrinsic social communicative value.
Either the limping reflects the effects of internally experienced pain on the central motor apparatus, or simply damaged peripheral structural supports.
